1) Did not expect this to match, but it does (I see no space between an e and an n?):
$ echo "overseen" | grep 'e[:space:]n' overseen 2) Expected this to match, but it doesn't: $ echo "are not" | grep 'e[:space:]n' $ 3) Compiled from original source. $ grep --version GNU grep 2.6.3 Thanks, karl P.S. Is there another non-Perl-regexp way to match across line boundaries? I suggest making this another example in the Usage node.
