For me these work with regular grep: $ grep "\-1$" summary.txt $ grep -v "\-1$" summary.txt
grep _does_ complain about the non-escaped minus mark. HTH, Hendrik [email protected] wrote: > Not really Linux related, but if someone knows an answer or workaround > then I would be grateful. > > I'm trying to exclude lines which end in '-1' which fails running under > cygwin on WinXP. Same commands function OK under Linux. > > Simon. > -- > $ cat summary.txt | egrep -v -e "-1$" | tail > 476104.000 51.10411824559 -114.04478800227 3 4 > 476609.000 51.10411831786 -114.04478817894 129 209 > 477003.000 51.10411275090 -114.04479720417 275 -1 > 477169.000 51.10411832040 -114.04478816533 165 169 > 477311.000 51.10411828605 -114.04478819246 3 11 > 477905.000 51.10409428788 -114.04476080702 -1 -1 > 478174.000 51.10411834941 -114.04478804193 62 274 > 478442.000 51.10411833032 -114.04478822637 169 242 > 478521.000 51.10411824799 -114.04478824568 7 21 > 479103.000 51.10413349770 -114.04480034572 -1 -1 > > $ which egrep > /usr/bin/egrep > > $ egrep --version > GNU grep 2.5.3 > > Copyright (C) 1988, 1992-2002, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -- Hendrik M. Schaink Chief Consultant "Integrated Business Solutions with Dependable Service" InfoVision Consulting Calgary, Alberta, Canada Phone: (403) 239-0099 _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
