On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:49:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Selon Frederick Ros <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Robert Siemer wrote : > > | instead if you dont want to work with a real tab character. [:blank:] is > > | exactly space and tab. > > > > Yup. I know this. But what if I want *only* tab characters ? > > > > With bash we can use escape sequence of bash. > $'un caractère tab : \011' <- code ascci base 8 > > So echo "example..." | grep $'\011'
Hey, not so complicated. (-: The shell-special $'...' also understands \t. Example: echo $'This is a tab: \t <-- (tab here).' Rob
