Sep 29, 2007
grep vs 'grep -E'
Well this might seem blindingly obvious to some, but I was stumped for half an hour this morning trying to figure out why 'grep he+' wasn't finding the word 'hello' in a test file when it was obviously there. The answer was that I should have read the manpage very carefully. The all-important paragraph reads as follows:
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