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On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Nick Rout wrote:

> I am trying to use grep to match a sequence of characters followed by a
> tab character (hex 09, I have looked at the file in hex)
> 
> so whats wrong with this?
> 
> grep "nick\t" file ; or

Might need to pass a literal \, so try:

        grep "nick\\t" file 

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David Zanetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  |  (__)  
#include <geek/unix.h>               |  ( oo    Mooooooo 
"Hope.. is a dangerous thing."       |  /(_O ./
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