asantos writes:
> Second, I'm not very familiar with egrep's regular expressions, but if I was
> to parenthise what you wrote it would seem to me that egrep would read it as
> 
> (word(1|w)ord(2|w)ord3)

No, concatenation takes precedence over selection (i.e., `|') in
regular expressions.


paul

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