On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:03:45 -0500 Neal Murphy <neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu> 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 Fails for me as well. Also, "^[B-Z]" and "^[C-Z]" fail in similar, but extended, ways. And grep fails in the same way as egrep. Try grep -P, though. This did what I expected. Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120205132105.68fcdda5@sqzxfce.localdomain
