grep "you\|me" filename
You need to put ESCAPE STRING ( \ ) for OR ( | ), else it will treat it as a simbol you want to search instead of regular expression symbol. or
grep -E "you|me" filename
or
egrep "you|me" filename
But, to get line with both "you" and "me", you can use
grep "you" filename | grep "me"
or,
egrep "you.*me" filename
but this will include those lines like "your lovely meebo", which is not what we want sometime. So, to get the exact words matched, use
egrep "\.*\" filename
For more info about egrep, use "man egrep"
The caret ^ and the dollar sign $ are metacharacters that respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a line. The symbols \<> respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a word. The symbol \b matches the empty string at the edge of a word, and \B matches the empty string provided it not at the edge of a word.
