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+### Watch out for different behaviour of the -E option across systems
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+Learners may encounter some inconsistent behaviour between operating systems when solving the challenge below.
+ `grep -E` on macOS acts like `grep -P` on other platforms. 
+ On Windows and Linux, `grep -E` is halfway between `grep -P` and `grep`: it only does what `grep` can do, but uses Perl-compatible syntax to do it.
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 ## Searching with regular expressions