Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> writes: > Care to elaborate? On my system the output of both commands is > identical, and if I read the man page of grep correctly, ^ is just part > of regular grep, so it doesn't need -E.
Sorry for the late reply -- I've been traveling. I saw some strange behaviour during upgrade but unfortunately can't reproduce it now. Maybe I just confused myself. Feel free to close this, and sorry about the noise. Best regards, Stefan Kangas