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Re: grep bork
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:29:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: grep bork
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <NUTMEG8Jecd92bXCH5n00000108@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Dave Korn wrote:
> 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?
>From the grep manpage:
> In basic regular expressions the metacharacters ?, +, {, |, (, and )
> lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?,
> \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).
Since you're calling grep as just "grep" (and not egrep or "grep -E")
you're using basic regexps, not extended.
Brian
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