On 2015-11-04 09:57, Peter Otten wrote: > Well, I didn't know that grep uses regular expressions by default.
It doesn't help that grep(1) comes in multiple flavors: grep: should use BRE (Basic REs) fgrep: same as "grep -F"; uses fixed strings, no REs egrep: same as "grep -E"; uses ERE (Extended REs) grep -P: a GNUism to use PCREs (Perl Compatible REs) there's also an "rgrep" which is just "grep -r" which I find kinda silly/redundant. Though frankly I feel the same way about fgrep/egrep since they just activate a command-line switch. You get even crazier when you start adding zgrep/zegrep/zfgrep. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
