On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:51:35AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 07.05.13 15:32, Chris Green wrote: > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:21:49AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > REs would be preferable but it does provide "fuzzy" searchs > > > > > Yes, I've used them occasionally, doesn't help with non alpha/number > > strings though. > > Maybe I'm missing something, but backslash-escaping allows REs to match > non alpha/number characters just fine, I find. The trick is to stick with > EREs (egrep, grep -E), because the BREs used by some tools by default require > more (and different) escapes. (When you're whacking in a quick regex on > the command line, it's handy to be using the same variant as you used > last time.) > Yes, REs *do* allow searching for anything. It's mairix's 'fuzzy' search that doesn't.
-- Chris Green
