Re: Weird grep behavior

www.google.com
search for "regular expressions"

;-)

( sorry, in grumpy mood )


On 5/4/05, Peter Grace <pgrace@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Along this topic, does anyone have a good reference on regular
> expressions?  I've seen people do some crazy magic with regexps and I
> would like to become such a wizard myself.
> 
> Fred Kulack wrote:
> > Yes, by default grep uses basic regular expressions.
> > The dot means to match any single character.
> > Use man grep and see the regular expression section.
> >
> > As you've seen,
> >   Use fgrep to grep for fixed strings (or grep -F)
> >   Use egrep to grep using extended regular expressions (or grep -E).
> >
> >
> 
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