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Old 11-18-2004
Quick Grep question

Is it possible to grep for two words at once? I want to grep for the words SEVERE or FATAL.

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Old 11-18-2004
Code:
egrep "SEVERE|FATAL"   [FILE(S]]

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http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/helpsheets/regex.html
 
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