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From: Rob Ellis <rob@web.ca>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Basic RegEx Syntax Help - grep
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Use "egrep":

  pkg_info | egrep 'libglade|rep-gtk'

-i (ignore case) is useful for package names where the capitalization
can be odd...

  pkg_info | egrep -i 'libglade|rep-gtk'

- Rob

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:08:28AM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
> I'm trying to grep the output of pkg_info to show me lines containing
> "libglade" OR "rep-gtk".  In reading the man page, I see that | is the
> "infix" (OR) operator.  What is the correct syntax to use this command?
> Everyway I have tried it, the shell sees | as a pipe and not the infix
> operator.  Here's some of the commands I've tried:
> 
> milkmaker# pkg_info | grep libglade|rep-gtk
> rep-gtk: Command not found.
> 
> milkmaker# pkg_info | grep "libglade"|"rep-gtk"
> rep-gtk: Command not found.
> 
> milkmaker# pkg_info | grep ['libglade'|'rep-gtk']
> grep: Unmatched [ or [^
> 
> milkmaker# pkg_info | grep [libglade|rep-gtk]
> grep: Unmatched [ or [^
> 
> milkmaker# pkg_info | grep [libglade] | [rep-gtk]
> grep: No match.
> [rep-gtk]: No match.
> 
> Help!  :)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
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