I got it now, confused I was. Grep is not the culprit.
FWIW, grep -s -i -E (\t|\s)fastboot($|\t|\s)' should be just fine. printf ' i915.fastboot=1' | grep -s -i -E '(\t|\s)fastboot($|\t|\s)' echo $? 1 $ printf ' fastboot' | grep -s -i -E (\t|\s)fastboot($|\t|\s)' fastboot $ printf ' fastboot ' | grep -s -i -E (\t|\s)fastboot($|\t|\s)' fastboot _______________________________________________ Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-sysvinit-devel

