Re: [Nolug] grepping multiple strings

On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 13:19, Scott Harney wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> '|' as in shell pipe not as in the grep 'or' sense. reread it this
> way and forgive me for not writing it this way in the first place:
> "I use the pipe 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."

Ok. That's how I've been doing it, but it just seems more efficient
to do 1 pass, rather than do a multi-pass.

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