egrep on the 3b1 is weird!

guy.r.berentsen guy at cbnewsc.att.com
Sat Mar 23 07:26:25 AEST 1991


> |> 	egrep 'foo|bar'
> |> matches lines containing fooar and fobar.  That's why you need to use
> 
> egrep 'foo|bar' will match either foo or bar, not fobar nor fooar.
> 

On my unix pc at work (running 3.5) egrep 'foo|bar' matches foo or bar
(of course it also matches "fobar" and "fooar" since 
the later contains the string "foo" and the former 
contains the string "bar")



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