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Re: issue with grep [^]
- To: RPraetorius at AspenRes dot Com, Jeff Jensen <jeffjensen at visi dot com>
- Subject: Re: issue with grep [^]
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:19:13 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
--- Robert Praetorius <RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com> wrote:
> > If I type:
> > cat x.txt | grep \\-[0-9]\)
> > it works great - the lines containing it are correctly returned.
> >
> > But typing:
> > cat x.txt | grep \\-[^0-9]\)
> > doesn't work - the same result occurs as the first case above, like the ^
> is
> > ignored.
>
> ^ is the quoting character for NT's CMD.EXE (bash doesn't exhibit
> this problem). Also note that CMD.EXE requires | must be double
> quoted if you're passing it through a pipe (again bash doesn't need
> this):
>
> F:\temp>echo ^| | cat
> The syntax of the command is incorrect.
>
> F:\temp>echo ^^^| | cat
> |
>
> F:\temp>bash
> $ echo \| | cat
> |
> $ echo \\\| | cat
> \|
>
Hi Robert and Jeff,
Robert, did you try this in bash?
It doesn't work. It *is* broken. I've found no work around. I doubt that
this would be a Cygwin bug but maybe 1.1.4 has it fixed. I'm running currently
a 1.1.3 build from 6/20/2000.
Cheers,
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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