Re: grep command or operator

On 2009-03-30, guzzijason <jasonwtucker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I'm sorry I was to busy to think out my response in a way that didn't
upset you. Yes... I'm *well* aware of the significance of the "e" in
"egrep". My point was, that instead of using '/usr/xpg4/bin/grep',
which can handle regex - but in my experience has not always been
available, depending on how the system was built - I simply tend to
use 'egrep' instead. I guess that in my haste, I didn't make that
clear. Or I didn't think it mattered. Probably the latter. :-)

You sounded like you were surprised by the better handling of regexpes
with egrep, so I just wanted to point that egrep was in fact grep with
support for regular expressions ;)



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