Am I confused, or does egrep on the 3b1 handle multiple regular expressions incorrectly? egrep 'foo|bar' seems to match '[fb][oa][or]' patterns, instead of what I wanted (matching lines with "foo" or "bar") Kris A. Kugel ( 908 ) 842-2707 uunet!tsdiag.ccur.com!hico2!kak {daver,ditka,zorch}!hico2!kak internet: kak at hico2.westmark.com