On Saturday 26 Jun 2010, Ashish SHUKLA wrote:
> Mohit Singh writes:
> > Need some help. On an embedded system being minimalistic 'grep -w'
> > does not work. Please let me know if somebody can emulate the
> > behavior by using some other tool.
>
> NONWORD='[^[:alpha:][:digit:]-]'
> grep "\(^\|${NONWORD}\)${PATTERN}\(${NONWORD}\|\$\)" $*
>
> This should work with grep supporting basic regexp.
Could this be made simpler using the ? operator?
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