Grouping in grep

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http://www.unix.com – How do you do grouping in grep? Here's how I tried it at first: Code: egrep qualit(y|ies) /usr/share/dict/words -bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' I'm using GNUgrep, and I found this on their site. grep regular expression syntax Quote: Grouping is performed with backslashes followed by parentheses \(, \). A backslash followed by a digit acts as a back-reference and matches the same thing as the previous grouped expression indicated by that number. For example \2 matches the second group expression. The order of group expressions (HowTos)