Whats wrong with this one line bash script?

Question

Major bash-noob here. Writing my second program again. For my homework, I need to write a number of grep statements using regexps.

This is the first one I'm trying to write. I'm saving it as grep.bash:

#!/bin/bash
egrep bright_side_of_life 'the'

The error I get is :

egrep: the: no such file or directory

Answer 1

Probably you flipped the arguments of egrep.

First comes the pattern, second the file.