RE: grep incorrect results with pattern ending in "\$"?

[Elliott Hughes]

you're right. (thanks too to Akim Demaille for pointing this out.)

sorry about that: i'm still trying to switch to bash from rc, and have
difficulty digesting the huge man page.

 --elliott

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 09 January 2002 16:06
> To: Elliott Hughes
> Cc: 'address@hidden'; Martin Dorey
> Subject: Re: grep incorrect results with pattern ending in "\$"?
> 
> 
> Elliott Hughes <address@hidden> wrote:
> > i find unexpected results from:
> >
> > % grep "\$.*\$.*\$" ~/playground/dollars
> 
> Replace "grep" with "echo" to see why.  Then reread the quoting
> section of your shell's man page.  You might find 'single quotes'
> useful.
> 
> 
> paul
> 


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