Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:57:04 -0400 From: Parv <parv@pair.com> To: James Long <stable@museum.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bzegrep behaviour not consistent with egrep? Message-ID: <20051020205704.GC4000@holestein.holy.cow> In-Reply-To: <20051020194725.GA10376@ns.museum.rain.com> References: <20051020194725.GA10376@ns.museum.rain.com>
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in message <20051020194725.GA10376@ns.museum.rain.com>, wrote James Long thusly... > > Should these two commands produce identical output? > > $ bzegrep "38436|41640" /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | wc -l > 0 > $ bzcat /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | egrep "38436|41640" | wc -l > 121 And more fun, try also "egrep -J| wc", which is similar to the 2d case above. Seems like the first "e" in "bzegrep" is erroneous. - Parv --
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