Thanks, Ben.  That can be very helpful when searching logs.


Ben Story wrote:
I learned a new one today. I needed to grep through a file and return matches for two different strings (an OR).

egrep '<expr1>|<expr2>' filename

The apostrophes are required so that bash doesn't interpret the pipes.
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