From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 27 6:33:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pobox.com (lakertya-1-170.mdm.mkt.execpc.com [169.207.142.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0AA715082 for ; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 06:33:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hamilton@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF43D46381; Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:33:14 -0600 (CST) To: Brendan Kosowski Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: grep question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:18:22 +1100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 08:33:14 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton Message-Id: <19990227143314.EF43D46381@pobox.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Brendan Kosowski wrote: [ how to grep for something with quotes in it ] } Thanks Jon, it works well. } } FreeBSD will have to get you to write a new manual for grep. While it's certainly true that there's room for improvement in many of the man pages, keep in mind too that they are intended as a reference, and not as a tutorial. The quoting you asked about is actually a shell issue, and is really one of those "UNIX principles" rather than anything specifically to do with grep. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message