On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, [email protected] wrote:
Shouldn't "a\n" match the regular expression a+ in the following case?
$ echo a | grep 'a'
a
$ echo a | grep 'a*'
a
$ echo a | grep 'a+'
$
See the section "Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions" in the grep man
page.
$ echo a | grep "a\+"
a
$ echo a | grep -E "a+"
a
Matthew
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Doctor: It's okay, it looks superficial.
Neelix: Am I going to die?
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