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Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to
come up with regular expressions that find each
individually using "egrep" command?

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Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to come up with regular expressions that find..

Answer / manikantan t s

egrep -e <expresseion 1> -e <expression 2> <file name>

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Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to come up with regular expressions that find..

Answer / shammi

Suppose yu have file name k.txt

naf@warsteiner:~:>cat k.txt
My name is harish
My name is Mark

Now naf@warsteiner:~:>egrep '(harish|Mark)' k.txt
My name is harish
My name is Mark

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Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to come up with regular expressions that find..

Answer / niranjan

Gud command egrep but it not available in all unix flaviours.

grep -e option do the same as egrep

syntax:-
egrep 'pattern1|pattern2|pattern3' filename

grep -e 'pattern1' -e 'pattern2' -e 'pattern3' filename

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Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to come up with regular expressions that find..

Answer / jsdkar

using egrep

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Give a regular expression that finds two things, try to come up with regular expressions that find..

Answer / linuxdemon(vjsujay@gmail.com)

vjsujay@vjsujay-desktop:~/test$ cat jsk
cake
coke

vjsujay@vjsujay-desktop:~/test$ egrep 'c(a|o)ke' jsk
cake
coke

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