On Wed, Sep 27, 2006, Stephen Allen wrote: >A simple grep command, 'grep -vf patternfile inputfile' works on Linux, >but the same command doesn't work on FreeBSD-6.1. > >To make it work I found I had to use -F to force the interpretation of >fixed-strings. I don't know why it made a difference from Linux, and >nothing in the man page appears to mention why.
Traditionally one uses ``fgrep'' for that type of matching. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Systems, Inc. UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much. -- Will Rogers _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
