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NB: egrep (where available) has expanded regular expressions, including some extensions from perl.
by silentbicycle 18y ago
NB: egrep (where available) has expanded regular expressions, including some extensions from perl.
- iron_ball 18y agoOr just go all the way and get pcregrep, then alias it to grep for convenience.
- etal 18y agoMy man pages tell me that egrep is the same as grep -E (--extended-regexp). There's also grep -P (--perl-regexp) which is even friendlier to Perl/Python/Ruby users, in that the parens and braces work the same way.