On 03/10/2011 02:32 PM, Bogdan Sass wrote:
I have encountered the following problem when attempting to combine the "case insensitive" and "count matches" option of egrep:root@vm-ubuntu:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english | wc -l 50 root@vm-ubuntu:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english -c 98297 root@vm-ubuntu:~# egrep -ic "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english 98297 The match is done correctly, but when I try to count the matches directly from egrep I get way too many results. Is there anything I am doing wrong here?
What version of grep is this? It works for me with 2.7. Paolo
