bug#68776: bug with escape characters in pattern

Hello, If you use input egrep "[^\\n\\t]" file and the file contains a line with only n or t on it, those lines are also excluded file normal lines tt n KR Brendan Richardson

bug#68776: bug with escape characters in pattern

On 2024-01-27 16:00, Brendan Richardson wrote: If you use input egrep "[^\\n\\t]" file and the file contains a line with only n or t on it, those lines are also This is the correct behavior. The command you mention is equivalent to grep -E '[^nt\]' file and this outputs all lines containing