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Re: Grep for tab character
Hi Christopher,
Thank you for your response!
How about just using the actual tab character? I don't see any
indication that
grep is supposed to treat '\t' specially and it seems to behave that way
on linux,
too.
I have read in many places that \t is a metacharacter for tab in regular
expressions - but maybe that's only for sed, perl, awk etc...
http://sitescooper.org/tao_regexps.html
What's wrong with just using tab?
Because that starts up auto-complete. In other words, I don't know how to
insert a literal tab into a command line.
But I do not like that idea for scripts either - it can be difficult to
visually discriminate a tab from a space character, which can too easily
lead to errors.
Rob
:)
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