On 07/09/14 12:21, Stephen Davies wrote:
> On 09/07/14 13:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 07/08/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Any details?
> For example,
>
> /^xx
>
> or
>
> :g/^xx/s/xx/yy/
>
> in vi finds nothing in a file with many lines starting with xx.
>
> Similarly grep -E "^xx" and gawk '/^xx/{print}'.
>
> In all cases, omitting the ^ finds the relevant lines (plus a whole lot more).
>
> Difference: one with and one without regex.
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