Don't use the back slash, and use single quotes to force all the expression to go to egrep directiy
-pete happy HOT 4th On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an 851 line data file in which certain lines begin with P > followed > by 5 digits. I want to count the number of those lines. Despite reading the > grep man page I am missing the correct syntax. > > The expression > egrep -cE "^P[[:digit:]]\{5\}" hrwq.dat > returns a count of zero (0). So do variations of options and search > strings. > > What have I missed here? > > Happy 4th, all, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
