On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:44, Otto Moerbeek 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.
Here you go. I left the login banner in case you also want the version: Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.10 Generic January 2005 $ echo "some text here" | egrep -x "" ; echo $status $ The default egrep that is run is GNU grep 2.5. There are some other greps on the system, but they don't like the "-x": $ echo "some text here" | /bin/egrep -x "" ; echo $status /bin/egrep: illegal option -- x usage: egrep [ -bchilnsv ] [ -e exp ] [ -f file ] [ strings ] [ file ] ... $ echo "some text here" | /bin/grep -x "" ; echo $status /bin/grep: illegal option -- x Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . . $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dan Ramaley Dial Center 118, Drake University Network Programmer/Analyst 2407 Carpenter Ave +1 515 271-4540 Des Moines IA 50311 USA
