grep help

malaymaru · #1 (**permalink**) 05-10-2005

Hi,

What is the command to find out more than 1 patterns from any file?

Thanks in advance.

Malay Maru

bhargav · #2 (**permalink**) 05-10-2005

try

grep -e "pattern1|pattern2" file1

or

egrep "pattern1|pattern2" file1

malaymaru · #3 (**permalink**) 05-10-2005

Hi,

second one is working fine but not first one.

$ grep -e "HSBC|malay" temp.txt
grep: illegal option -- e
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .

Can you tell me y? I am using solaris 5.9 OS.

Malay

reborg · #4 (**permalink**) 05-10-2005

use bhargv's second suggestion ie. egrep and it will work fine.

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