Grep OR Operator

by damonp on November 9, 2006

I always forget this…

php -i | grep "Zend\|Cube"

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leorick December 12, 2007 at 8:22 pm: Thanks a lot, save my day! Me too, always forget the backslash…

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Patrick April 18, 2008 at 4:27 pm: Haha, I’ve searched for this one to make my final command (don’t output empty lines and lines starting with comments):

grep -v “^#\|^$” my.cnf

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Steve May 17, 2009 at 4:09 pm: Ha! I’ve just spent ages searching for this.
Great!
My own use:
# iwlist ath0 scan | grep ‘Cell\|ESS\|Freq’

Far more useful output. Quick site survey.
Cheers!

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Chris August 20, 2009 at 11:46 pm: Thanks, very useful. Good catch on the backslash.

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Neo September 11, 2009 at 4:14 pm: egrep And Operator= use egrep twice!
first to filter out locations, second filter out titles
$ egrep -i ‘city1|city2′ joblist | egrep -i ‘director|manager’ > joblist2

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Anthony September 20, 2009 at 1:09 am: Thanks! I always forget the backslash!

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Michael March 20, 2010 at 9:19 am: Why not supporting standard regex in perl and js etc…that is dumb I spent ages until I got here…thanks!

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