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Date:      Thu, 07 Dec 2017 10:26:19 +0000
From:      Frank Leonhardt <frank2@fjl.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep problem
Message-ID:  <5A29174B.3030608@fjl.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20171207011948.65dbfa00@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <20171207005542.43a7f55f@gumby.homeunix.com> <20171207011948.65dbfa00@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On 07/12/2017 01:19, RW via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Never mind, the shell handles the quotes, so grep sees -b as an option
> rather than a pattern.

:-)

To find these things out the easy way, stick "echo" in front of the 
line, immediately a quoting problem is suspected.




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