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Re: grep

From: Paul Jarc
Subject: Re: grep
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:57:22 -0400
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"Alexander James Mattam" <address@hidden> wrote:
>        grep [:digit:]    what should it return???

It should output lines that contain :, d, i, g, or t.  (But without
quotes, the shell may change the pattern.)  To get lines containing
digits, use:
grep '[[:digit:]]'


paul
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