how to grep 2 words at the same time

ufmale · 09-09-2010, 03:59 PM

I want to grep any line with "john" or "jack". How to do that?
I tried

grep john | grep jack

but it didn't work

slakmagik · 09-09-2010, 04:19 PM

grep -e john -e jack

or (better)

egrep '(john|jack)'

What you tried was actually a pipe from one grep to the next.

bigrigdriver · 09-09-2010, 04:25 PM

www.google.com/linux is your friend. Most questions that you may have are already answered. For example: http://linux.byexamples.com/archives...ds-and-not-or/