On 9/7/06, Otto Moerbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, AndrC)s wrote:
>
> > egrep shouldn't find anything, you are searching for the string "" in
> > "some text here", clearly, it isn't there.
>
> Nah, an empty search pattern should match any line, as defined by SU
> and the man page. The only problem is if the -x option takes
> precendence or not. SU does not say a word about that.
>
> If anybody has access to a Solaris machine, I like to know what the
> test does there.
>
> -Otto
" The following option is supported for /usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
only:
-x Consider only input lines that use all characters in
the line to match an entire fixed string or regular
expression to be matching lines."
$ alias egrep=/usr/xpg4/bin/egrep
$ echo "some text here" | egrep -x "" ; echo $status
$
SunOS 5.9.
ddp
