what should egrep '|root' /etc/passwd print? (Everything)

Rick Adams rick at seismo.CSS.GOV
Sat Sep 17 08:09:42 AEST 1988


> In any case, Rick should probably use jaw-improved-gnu-egrep for
> correct results.


This all started becuase I WAS using the gnu-egrep and it broke
on of my shellscripts (The news "checkgroups" script). Admittedly,
the shellscript could have been better written, but it was an
incompatible behavior and I wasn't really sure which was 'right'

--rick



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