On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:08:00 +0200 Mihai Maties <mihai xcyb org> wrote: |On Friday 26 March 2004 15:04, Thiers Botelho wrote: |> |> (I need to show any line containing _either_ of the strings) |> |> so that a script could output just the header line of 'df' plus the single |> line describing '/dev/foobar' below it. | |df -m|grep -E 'Filesystem|/dev/foobar' |or |df -m|egrep 'Filesystem|/dev/foobar' | | |Mihai Thnx a lot. :)) I'd never have thought of '-E' by myself, since I thought it was meant only for regular expressions (I'm not quite ready for this stuff yet). . . Thiers