by Tkil » Sun, 27 Jan 1991 07:46:06
Many apologies for the inappropriate posting. Having received only
two RTFM replies, I count myself lucky to have caught it in time.
Thanks Anyway,
Tony.
P.S. apparently, egrep supports 'real' reg-exps, not the cheezy ones
as described in the man page. :)
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Supporting: Unix / DOS / VMS / Macintosh / "What's this?"
ObQuote: "Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me..."
- Sisters Of Mercy
I've a question for unix gurus. I was creating a mail digest, and
was using 79 '=' signs as delimiters. I then tried to use egrep to
knock it apart, with the command
% egrep '^=\{79\}$' my-mail-digest
which failed pretty violently to find any separaters. I eventually
got around to trying
% grep '^=\{79\}$' my-mail-digest
which worked as expected.
The real 'question' then, is why did egrep fail while grep works?
TiA,
Tony
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Supporting: Unix / DOS / VMS / Macintosh / "What's this?"
ObQuote: "Lucretia, my reflection, dance the ghost with me..."
- Sisters Of Mercy
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