Re: egrep -i -c

[Bogdan Sass]

On 11/03/2011 12:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

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

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?

root@vm-ubuntu:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english -c

What version of grep is this?  It works for me with 2.7.

root@vm-ubuntu:~# egrep -V
GNU grep 2.6.3



    Thank you,

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Bogdan Sass
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The default version installed by Ubuntu 10.10. There doesn't seem to be an updated version in the Ubuntu repositories...

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