Re: grep

From: Barry Kimelman (barryk2_at_SPAM-KILLER.mts.net)
Date: 04/30/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 08:26:52 -0500

[This followup was posted to comp.unix.shell]

In article <D2yra.20715$3M4.588359@news1.tin.it>, sinapsi (info@zam.it)
says...
> I would like to grep in a file two pattern.
>
> Have I to do:
>
> grep pattern1 file
> grep pattern2 file
>
> Maybe is there a better way?
>
> thnx
> Dopamina
> cyberunners.org

You can use the "-e" option to specify patterns on grep (and egrep)

grep -e pattern1 pattern2 file 

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