ah yes...silly mistake on my part. thanks for the help.
kind regards,
mike sandman
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egrep not selecting all possible matches
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“Finally, certain named classes of characters are predefined _within_
bracket expressions[…]”
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ egrep '^sho[[:alpha:]]{2}s$' /usr/share/dict/words
shoals
shocks
shoots
shores
shorts
shouts
shoves
Your pattern didn’t match two characters from the [:alnum:] class, but
rather any
