egrep -i -c

[Bogdan Sass]

    I have encountered the following problem when attempting to combine 
the "case insensitive" and "count matches" option of egrep:

address@hidden:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english | 
wc -l
50
address@hidden:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english  -c
98297
address@hidden:~# egrep -ic "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english
98297

    The match is done correctly, but when I try to count the matches 
directly from egrep I get way too many results. Is there anything I am 
doing wrong here?

    Thank you,

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Bogdan Sass
CCAI,CCSP,JNCIA-ER,CCIE #22221 (RS)
Information Systems Security Professional
"Curiosity was framed - ignorance killed the cat"

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