grep bork

["Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>]

Well, either grep or bash:

dk@mace /davek> echo >test-grep.txt " 123 ; pretend asm comment"
dk@mace /davek> cat test-grep.txt
 123 ; pretend asm comment
dk@mace /davek> grep "[0-9]+[\t ]*;" test-grep.txt
dk@mace /davek> grep "[0-9]*[\t ]*;" test-grep.txt
 123 ; pretend asm comment
dk@mace /davek> grep "[0-9]\+[\t ]*;" test-grep.txt
 123 ; pretend asm comment
dk@mace /davek> grep '[0-9]+[\t ]*;' test-grep.txt
dk@mace /davek> grep '[0-9]*[\t ]*;' test-grep.txt
 123 ; pretend asm comment
dk@mace /davek> grep '[0-9]\+[\t ]*;' test-grep.txt
 123 ; pretend asm comment
dk@mace /davek> shopt extglob
extglob         off
dk@mace /davek>

Ok, since when has the plus sign been a bash metachar?  I'm sure I've never
had to escape it before, but am I remembering wrong?


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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