From: Monty Williams Date: 2010-12-11T13:48:31+09:00 Subject: Re: Regular expression help Try crontab -l |egrep -i "(shut|init|sync|reb)" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rajesh M." To: "ruby-talk ML" Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:58:35 PM Subject: Regular expression help Hi list, I need help in putting a regular expression, regular expression should find either of these four words: shut reb sync init I am trying to find either shutdown or reboot or sync or init, for Linux it works fine if I put crontab -l |grep -iP "(shut|init|sync|reb)" but in Solaris it is failing because it doesn't have regular expression option which is -P. So I am trying to make this through regular expression. Thanks in advance -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.