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Re: Possible bug in grep ?
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: Possible bug in grep ? |
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Tue, 29 Apr 2003 11:38:23 -0400 |
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raghubs <address@hidden> wrote:
> cat a | grep "\n"
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> OS just throws dollar prompt.
The regexp "\n" matches the character n. If you want to match the end
of the line, use "$". (Also, beware that the shell does $variable
expansion in double-quoted strings; use 'single quotes' to prevent
that.)
paul