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bug#37754: wish for grep --and -eX -eY -eZ (X∩Y∩Z intersection, not X∪Y∪


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#37754: wish for grep --and -eX -eY -eZ (X∩Y∩Z intersection, not X∪Y∪Z union)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 01:27:35 -0700
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On 10/16/19 5:19 PM, Trent W. Buck wrote:
I would expect "grep -Fw -e 4GB -e DDR4 --and" to print the same thing as

     grep -Fw 4GB | grep -Fw DDR4 | grep -Fw -e 4GB -e DDR4 -o

You're right, it's not obvious. :-)

It may be better to just pipe greps together, as you do now. That's simple and fast enough for this relatively-uncommon case, and it's portable to all greps.





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