Re: problem with multiple -e flags for egrep

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 10, 2000, Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> | How about writing a shell snippet in configure.in that outputs the
> | egrep regexp?

> Indeed, but I bet anchors cannot portably be embedded in
> alternations.

Does this apply to egrep too?

If it does, we can always use two egreps, one that will match
'^AC_(...)$' and another that matches the remaining alternatives.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva     http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/     Enjoy Guaranį
Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company        aoliva@{redhat, cygnus}.com
Free Software Developer and Evangelist    CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp
oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}   Write to mailing lists, not to me