Re: [Nolug] grepping multiple strings

"Andrew S. Johnson" <andy@asjohnson.com> writes:

>> Thanks. I wonder why egrep doesn't have an "and" operator also. That
>> seems like a big oversight.
>
> Actually, you could include a wildcard ".*" in your search string, which means
> any number of any characters match. Try this: egrep "this.*that" filenames.
> Isn't this AND?

Not exactly. The words must be in the given order. In other words,
you'll catch "this and that" but not "that and this" in our example.
I figure he wants a true 'and' where both terms are captured
regardless of the order. But don't believe me; try it!

-- 
Scott Harney<scotth@scottharney.com>
"...and one script to rule them all."
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