Re: grep 2.4.2

[Alain Magloire]

> 
> Hello,
> 
> Assuming the datafile which contains one line:
> 
> Main
> 
> issuing: grep '\<[a-z][a-z]*n\>' datafile
> 
> returns that line.
> 
> I was expecting "return lines where a word starts with lowercase,
> followed by any number of lowercase and ending with letter n" hence no
> line returned.

# export LANG=C
# /bin/echo "Main\nmain" |grep '\<[a-z][a-z]*n\>'
main
#

Please check your locale variables. Bracket expression range may
differ depending on the language.


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au revoir, alain
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