Try grep -E "I{2}A"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: yzhang@imagenow.com [ mailto:yzhang@imagenow.com ]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 11:42 AM
> To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Subject: B20.1: egrep doesn't take {n}
>>>> According to the manual of egrep, egrep should be able to
> process expression like I{2}A. But in fact, it
> doesn't. I have tried:
> egrep I{2}A ocr1.txt
> under Windows NT 4.0 with service pack 4, it returns nothing.
> I have tried egrep under AIX, and it's working fine.
>> Yong Zhang
>> (See attached file: ocr1.txt)
>
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