Jamie Howard writes: > > Perhaps this will help with -w? > > Yes, I received a patch from Simon Burge which implements this. It also > beats using [^A-Za-z] and [A-Za-z$] as I was and GNU grep does. I am > still having trouble with -x though. It turns out that even if I specify > a commandline with a pattern of the form "^pattern$", it fails. If I > specify "^pattern" it works. If I specify "pattern$" it does not. I > have yet to find a case where my version will sucessfully match when a $ > is at the end. Has anyone encountered anything like this before?
If you are using double quotes, as you show here, the shell may be attempting a variable substitution. Try single quotes. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
