Re: man grep: can't find 'tab' or 'control'

[Stepan Kasal]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 01:43:10AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Can't find 'tab' or 'control' characters mentioned on the grep man
> page. One wanted to find out how to match tabs with \t or something.

the manpage mentiones [[:cntrl:]] character class, which contains tab.

But tab is an ordinary character, as all others, so you just type it
on the command line.  When I use
        bash --noediting
I can just enter it on the cmd line.

If you use a shell which prevents you from entering it directly, just
fight with it; Ctrl-V Tab in readline helps.

Have a nice day,
        Stepan