[aclug-L] Re: a dump grep question

[Carl D Cravens <raven@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Maverick wrote:

> #grep -w "111" & "PPP" testfile <-- error
> 111 ABC DEF IJK PPP <--- I want this output

grep -E '111.*PPP'

If you care about them being the beginning and end of the line...

grep -E '^111.*PPP$'

> I know that egrep support "|" (boolean or) to grep,
> but I don't know it support "&"(boolean and). Please
> help.

egrep supports extended regular expressions... see regex(7) for a
blow-your-mind technical discussion of it.  Search the web for a kinder,
gentler discussion of regular expressions.

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