Re: egrep and conditions

Seebs wrote:

JAW wrote:
I am looking to get a zero return code only if offset and gov are in
the display

You probably want:
"(offset.*gov)|(gov.*offset)"

Thinking this through should explain all. (Note that I may have gotten
the backslashes wrong, I'm not really awake yet.)

It is correct, no backslashes are needed here (with *e*grep). One does not
need the parentheses, though, because concatenation binds stronger than
alternation:

egrep -e 'offset.*gov|gov.*offset' >/dev/null 2>&1

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