On 15 Jan 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Allan> That's the way someone wrote it originally. egrep or `grep -E`
> Allan> is the best tool for the job given that we want to find files
> Allan> with "_(\".*\")" in them. `grep grep po/Makefile.in.in` to see
> Allan> why.
>
> What's wrong with
>   grep '_(".*")' ...
>
> Am I just being dense?

Aren't regular expressions like above a GNU extension for grep.
That's why I asked about egrep which I think (hope) is "standard".
You gotta love Unix, there are so many standards to choose from.

Allan. (ARRae)


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