>> Unfortunately:
>>
>> amcnabb@sage:~ :) echo "sit" |egrep "s?he|it"
>> sit
>
>Perhaps, but:
>echo "sit" | sed -r 's/.*(s?he|it).*/Matched: "\1"/;'

>Or if you're using a reasonable version of grep:
>$ echo "sit" | egrep --color "s?he|it"

Or, even if you don't have color:

$ echo "sit" | egrep "s?he|it" -o
it

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