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Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:29:30 -0500
From: Glenn Johnson <gjohnson@nola.srrc.usda.gov>
To: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us>
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Subject: Re: searching for tab characters in grep
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:04:10PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 16:54:06 -0500 Glenn Johnson wrote:
> +------------------
>
>  | I know this is probably a stupid question but I can not find the
>  | answer. How do I search for a pattern with grep when the pattern
>  | contains tab characters. I have tried using \t but it does not
>  | work.
>
>  +------------------
>
> The tab character is generated using ctrl-I (ie hold down the ctrl key
> and press I).  Most shells allow you to insert a "litteral" control
> character by preceding it with a ctrl-V.

Thanks.

I had looked at the man page for tcsh as I suspected it had something to
do with how the shell was passing characters to grep but I just did not
grasp the meaning of ctrl-V.

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Glenn Johnson
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