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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
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