Hi, On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Matthias Lederhofer wrote: > +-e:: > + The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be > + used for patterns starting with - and should be used in > + scripts passing user input to grep. ... and by the far the most common use is to pass more than one pattern. Also, the usage is "[-e] <pattern> [-e <pattern>...]". Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html