On Saturday 11 February 2012 12:50:56 Bill Gradwohl wrote: > I had hoped to find a help list because this may be my problem, but here > goes: > > grep --color '^[[:alpha:]]*' xxx > Lists every line including blank lines, highlighting leading alpha strings. > > grep --color '^[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]]*' xxx > Lists every line starting with an alpha and highlights all leading alphas. > This is what I wanted, so I tried rewriting the spec as: > > grep --color '^[[:alpha:]]+' xxx > lists nothing. > > Is it me or is this a bug?
please post: - the output of `grep --version` - the output of `locale` - an example "xxx" file -mike
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