From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 28 3:10:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 95D6515217 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 03:09:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 7184 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Feb 1999 08:54:25 -0000 Message-ID: <19990228085425.7183.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:54:24 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Brendan Kosowski Cc: Patrick Seal , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: grep question References: In-reply-to: of Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:09:11 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Holy bejebees bat# man grep > Your manual is obviously better than mine. No, but he did tell you the wrong manual. The manual of interest is the manual for whatever shell you are using. Unix commands (on all flavours of Unix) don't get to see the command lines that you type -- they see whatever the shell gives them and you have to know what your shell does with what you type. The usual way to find this out is with the echo command. > "FreeBSD isn't evil, they just make > really crappy manuals." This is a very poorly-informed comment. Until you understand something you cannot have a useful opinion about it. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message