[bug #23535] Grep Doesn't Support \t as a tab character

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                 Summary: Grep Doesn't Support \t as a tab character
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tuesday 06/10/2008 at 23:12 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi,

When using grep to search for tab characters it doesn't seem to recognize \t.
Rather it recognizes \t as the letter t.  Is this the way it is meant to
function?  The work around if using grep from bash is $'\t' instead of '\t'.

I am using GNU grep 2.5.3

Thank you,
Kyle Brandt
address@hidden




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