Grep question 1

[clegg]

I want to search for a string plus either of 2 more strings but I don't know how to form the syntax

EG cat afile | grep 'text1' AND (text2 OR text3) > results

Any help would be appreciated

Clegg

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi. Try:

egrep -e <Value1> -e <Value2) ...etc

HTH.

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:
grep 'text1' afile | grep -E 'text2|text3' > results
If your grep version don't like the -E option, try this:
grep 'text1' afile | egrep 'text2|text3' > results

Hope This Help, PH.
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[clegg]

Cheers PHV - that worked!!