Re: Shell script to list group members

[MHR <mhullrich@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Barry Brimer <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The egrep is using a leading anchor (^) to make sure the grep matches the
> beginning of the line.  If not, and the group pattern matched as one of the
> users it would print those lines too .. which is probably undesirable.
>

Grep understands the '^', so egrep is not needed.  Typically, you only
need egrep for patterns that involve alternative re's, like looking
for one of "abc|def|ghi" which grep does not recognize.

Also, it might be helpful to trim your replies so we don't need to
wade through the whole thread to see your reply.

mhr
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