On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 11:58, Scott Harney wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> >
> > Thanks. I wonder why egrep doesn't have an "and" operator also. That
> > seems like a big oversight.
>
> There's a 'rule' of sorts that says patterns must match one consecutive
> string of text. Thus, no 'and' in grep utilities. There is
> another version of grep that you may or may not have, agrep, that does
> indeed have an 'and' operator. I use the | method of narrowing down
> searches so often I never even considered that an 'and' operator might
> or might not exist until you asked the question.
"or" to narrow down searches????
"or" expands search results. Only "and" narrows down searches.
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