<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 March 2017 at 19:22, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1ii" class="a3s aXjCH m15b06ec6cef23db9"> 1) can most of those be simplified with "grep -q"?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":1ii" class="a3s aXjCH m15b06ec6cef23db9">
2) is there any need for "egrep" in that last match?</div></blockquote></div><br>egrep is grep -E, but that regex is a valid basic RE, so that can just be grep.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>