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Re: issue with grep [^]
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: issue with grep [^]
- From: Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 10:01:14 -0700
- Organization: VERITAS Software
- References: <20000825141913.3745.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com>
This works correctly in ver. 1.1.4:
$ cat tstfile
-1)
-2)
-x)
-C)
$ grep \\-[0-9]\) tstfile
-1)
-2)
$ grep \\-[^0-9]\) tstfile
-x)
-C
$
Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> --- 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,
>
> =====
> ---
> Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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