I think you need to do egrep .*adsf.*    to match the substring

On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Kristopher Kane <[email protected]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Trying to use egrep in the shell on v1.3.4 - help says it is a java format
> regex but what does that mean from the shell?  egrep "asdf" -c ... doesn't
> match anything whilst grep "asdf" -c ... does.  What's required for the
> regex argument?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Kris

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