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You are using a pipe, which sends the output to another command. It is expecting a command, like 'grep', or 'egrep' in your case.

alternation in egrep requires parenthesis

Code:

egrep '(value1|value2|value3)' somefile

Test - Test

remove parentheses.And be carefull with inclusive quotes...
--> man egrep

You should try this :

Code:

xxx

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