What is the difference between grep and egrep?

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grep is a basic pattern matching tool, while egrep is an extended version with support for regular expressions.
grep is a basic command-line utility for searching plain text data for lines that match a...read more
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In grep, you can search for more than one strings at same time ''key1|key2|
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