What is egrep?

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What is egrep? ..

Answer / abhilash s

egrep (grep -E in linux) is extended grep where additional
regular expression metacharacters have been added like +, ?,
| and ()

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What is egrep? ..

Answer / tiger6

egrep is a command that allow you to generate a listing
using variables
egrep "First|Last"

this would produce a listing that gave only the data from
the file queried that were associated with the variables
Firt and Last.
example if the the list held First names and Last names you
might see a list like this
Jame Martin
Tom Jones ...

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