On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, AndrC)s wrote:
> 
> > egrep shouldn't find anything, you are searching for the string "" in
> > "some text here", clearly, it isn't there.
> 
> Nah, an empty search pattern should match any line, as defined by SU
> and the man page. The only problem is if the -x option takes
> precendence or not. SU does not say a word about that.
> 
> If anybody has access to a Solaris machine, I like to know what the
> test does there.

For (k)sh, change $status into $?

> 
>       -Otto
> 
> >
> > On 9/7/06, Martin Marusak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > OpenBSD egrep finds nothing in any text:
> > > ---
> > > % echo "some text here" | egrep -x "" ; echo $status
> > > some text here
> > > 0
> > > ---
> > >
> > > GNU grep does not:
> > > ---
> > > % echo "some text here" | gegrep -x "" ; echo $status
> > > 1
> > > ---
> > > Isn't that a bug in OpenBSD egrep?
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > AndrC)s Delfino

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