>>>>> "JF" == Jon Forsyth <jon4s...@gmail.com> writes:
JF> According to the grep manual page I can use the -P option to use JF> Perl regular expressions as follows: JF> grep -P PERL_REGEX INPUT_FILE just to let you know, nothing but perl can run perl regexes. all the ones that claim it are doing subsets and in some cases not even close anymore. JF> however, I cannot get the following pattern to match a literal JF> dollar sign: JF> grep -P makan\$ file.txt you are escaping that from the shell but the 'perl' regex will then make it match the end of a line or before a newline. you need to quote it against the shell with '' and keep the \ in there. uri -- Uri Guttman -- uri AT perlhunter DOT com --- http://www.perlhunter.com -- ------------ Perl Developer Recruiting and Placement Services ------------- ----- Perl Code Review, Architecture, Development, Training, Support ------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
