On Ne 05-02-12 | 16:03, Neal Murphy wrote: > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not doing what > it > should. > > I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or on a > console running bash or dash, this command: > ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]" > returns all lines except those beginning with 'a'. Even the following > commands > exhibit similar behavior: > alias|sed -e 's/^a/b/'|egrep "^[A-Z]" # passes sed's output untouched > alias|sed -e 's/^a/A/'|egrep "^[A-Z]" # passes sed's output untouched > > These commands behave the same way on another Squeeze installation at another > location. Also, 'grep -E' behaves the same way. > > The commands behave as expected on a different GNU/Linux system. > > Does anyone else see this behavior? Or do I need to clean my pipe and smoke > something better? > > Thanks, > N
The "^[A-Z]" range will never match line beginning with a, since the range matches only uppercase characters. Maybe try using the "egrep -i" (case insensitive option) ? T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
