Re: Grep Options

[Bret Hughes <bhughes elevating com>]

SoloCDM wrote:

> While using grep, what is the best way to search for two subjects
> within the same line instead of the following?
>
> cat <filename> | grep <subject_one> | grep <subject_two>
>
> This is not an "or" search with "-e", but an "and" search.

something like :
grep subject1.+subject2 filename

I belive this say grep all lines in filename that have the text subject
on followed by one or more of any character followed by the text
subject2.

I forget off hand how to tell it zero or more of any character.  The
above will not grep a line like "subject1subject2" but would get
"subject1 subject2"

Bret