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  In  basic  regular expressions the metacharacters ?, +, {,
    }, |, (, and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the
      backslashed versions \?, \+, \{, \}, \|, \(, and \).


So does grep '^\(fee\|fie\)' junk.txt work?

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:35:48AM -0400, Ken Gosier wrote:
> Greetings, and I hope this isn't a "D'oh!" question that will make me kick
> myself.. :-)
> 
> I wanna use grep to match on lines in a file that begin with either of 2
> patterns. As far as I understand regex's, I should use ^(...|...) to do
> this, as in:
> 
> grep ^(fee|fie) junk.txt
...
> -- 
> Ken Gosier
> ken at kg293.net
> ken_gosier at yahoo.com

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