Stephen Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A simple grep command, 'grep -vf patternfile inputfile' works on Linux, > but the same command doesn't work on FreeBSD-6.1.
Can you provide an example, please? "grep -fv" seems to work fine for me 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. The -F option is documented in the manual page. Without it, patterns are interpreted as basic regular expressions. With that option, they're interpreted as fixed string. If Linux behaves differently, then that's a bug in Linux rather than in FreeBSD. But then again, both Linux and FreeBSD use GNU grep ... Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "C++ is to C as Lung Cancer is to Lung." -- Thomas Funke _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
