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Kropotkin

01-16-2007 07:35 PM

grep CLI syntax: how to find A OR B?

I can't get figure out how to alternation to work on the command line. Something like this doesn't work:

$ grep $the\|and$ somefile.txt

nor this:

$ grep "(the|and)" somefile.txt

What's the secret?

anomie

01-16-2007 07:44 PM

Try:

Code:

egrep 'the|land' somefile

matthewg42

01-16-2007 09:09 PM

What anomie said, or you could try:

Code:

grep -e the -e and somefile.txt

Kropotkin

01-16-2007 09:45 PM

Just what I was looking for, thanks.

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