> On 20010403.1418, Rob Hudson said ...
>
> Let's see if I do...
> 
> $ grep string1 string2 filename(s)
> 
> will find those files that contain string1 _OR_ string2

Actually, this doesn't work.  I thought it did b/c my output was long
and I didn't see the error message at the top.  

I found out you need to do something like this:

$ grep -E 'string1|string2' filename(s)

to 'OR' grep for 2+ strings.

> whereas
> 
> $ grep string1 filename(s) | grep string2
> 
> will find those files that contain string1 _AND_ string2
> 
> Correct?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rob
> 

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