grep bork
Brian Dessent
brian@dessent.net
Thu Mar 11 19:34:00 GMT 2004
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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