On Mon, 20 May 2019 20:01:12 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote:
> The grep command works with GNU, NetBSD, FreeBSD and BusyBox. It fails
> on OpenBSD and Solaris 11. I'm suggesting upstream to change the command
> to "grep -e ".datapack" -e ".histpack"" but I would like to know if this
> is a bug or we just don't support the | in the grep patterns.
That's GNU regexp format, not POSIX. The standard way to do this
is with an extended regular expression using egrep. E.g.
cat test.txt | egrep ".datapack|.histpack"
though you should escape the '.' if you want it to match literally.
- todd
