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Old 02-09-2009
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Originally Posted by rushhour
So you are saying to find thing, talking, tring and ting, withing a file, I should use the following:
Code:
grep 't.ing' myFile

Code:
egrep 'thing|talking|tring|ting' myFile

# 9  
Old 02-09-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
Code:
egrep 'thing|talking|tring|ting' myFile

is there no way of doing it just using grep and not egrep?
Last edited by rushhour; 02-09-2009 at 04:28 PM..
# 10  
Old 02-09-2009
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Originally Posted by rushhour
is there no way of doing it just using grep and not egrep?
Depends on your version of 'grep' - you need the support of the 'extended regex' in grep.
Some greps support either a '-e' or '-E' for the extended regex - try it out.
 
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