egrep on the 3b1 is weird!

[David S. Herron]

In article <1268 at hico2.UUCP> kak at hico2.UUCP (Kris A. Kugel) writes:
>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")

Try

	egrep '(foo)|(bar)'

And read the F'ing manual a little more closely next time ...


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