Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 16:20:38 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Jamie Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu> Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org, tech@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Repalcement for grep(1) Message-ID: <ML-3.4.931303238.7757.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <199907051807.LAA54803@bubba.whistle.com>
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Jamie Howard writes: > > Perhaps this will help with -w? > > Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also > beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am > still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify > a commandline with a pattern of the form "^pattern$", it fails. If I > specify "^pattern" it works. If I specify "pattern$" it does not. I > have yet to find a case where my version will sucessfully match when a $ > is at the end. Has anyone encountered anything like this before? If you are using double quotes, as you show here, the shell may be attempting a variable substitution. Try single quotes. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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