On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 01:22:21PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 2019 20:01:12 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado wrote: > > > The grep command works with GNU, NetBSD, FreeBSD and BusyBox. It fails > > on OpenBSD and Solaris 11. I'm suggesting upstream to change the command > > to "grep -e ".datapack" -e ".histpack"" but I would like to know if this > > is a bug or we just don't support the | in the grep patterns. > > That's GNU regexp format, not POSIX. The standard way to do this > is with an extended regular expression using egrep. E.g. > > cat test.txt | egrep ".datapack|.histpack" > > though you should escape the '.' if you want it to match literally.
Yes, that worked. Many thanks for the help guys. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
