Sample text file: file.txt -------------------- Hello there -------------------
run: cat file.txt | egrep -e "o$" you will get nothing run: egrep -e "o$" file.txt' you will get "Hello" run: egrep -e "^" file.txt | egrep -e "o$" you get "Hello" if you compare the result of runing: cat file.txt with: egrep -e "^" they look the same. It seems 'cat' is chaning the output such that 'egrep' (grep -E) can't match the end-of-line marker correctly. Interestingly enough if you dont include a carrage return after the 'there' in the file then it seems to pick up 'cat file.txt | egrep -e "e$"' just fine or if you try this: 'cat file.txt | egrep -e "$"' it also seems to do what you would expect. For the time being I have replaced cat.exe with a shell script as follows: --------------------------- #!/bin/sh egrep -e "^" $1 -------------------------- and that seems to be working for me. But this does seem like a bug. Jim Carroll _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
