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Re: Just want to exclude lines with tabs


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: Just want to exclude lines with tabs
Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 10:56:41 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14)

xyz2041 scripsit:

> What am I missing?

That grep and similar Posix utilities do not understand \t.  Instead,
use \011 (the octal code for tab):

$ grep -v '\011' o.csv > o-out.csv

You need to put the \011 in single quotes, otherwise the shell will interpret
the \0 sequence as equivalent to simple 0.

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