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RE: issue with grep [^]
- To: <RPraetorius at AspenRes dot Com>
- Subject: RE: issue with grep [^]
- From: "Jeff Jensen" <jeffjensen at nospam dot visi dot com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 21:59:29 -0500
- Cc: <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
That was it - the NT issue. (Silly I didn't think of trying in bash...I've
avoided it for the simple/smaller things because it is slower than the DOG
prompt.)
Earnie - it works for me in bash.
Thanks for the responses!
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Praetorius [mailto:RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 7:41 AM
To: Jeff Jensen
Cc: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: issue with grep [^]
> 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
\|
Follow start menu => help => Windows NT commands => command symbols
for docs on CMD.EXE's special characters. Or just spend you time in
bash, which is friendlier and more featureful:-)
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