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egrep question

 
Steve Edmunds_2
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‎10-12-2004 04:09 AM

‎10-12-2004 04:09 AM

egrep question

Is this a bug with /usr/bin/egrep?

#echo aaa> a1.txt; echo "DR(aaa)" > b1.txt
#/usr/bin/egrep -w -f a1.txt b1.txt
#
Whereas:
# /opt/gnu/bin/egrep -w -f a1.txt b1.txt
DR(aaa)

as expected...
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A. Clay Stephenson
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‎10-12-2004 04:51 AM

‎10-12-2004 04:51 AM

Re: egrep question

A careful reading of the egrep man page (pay attention to the -w option) indicates that HP
got it wrong. Because the "()"'s are non word-constituent characters. I wouldn't trust quirks of egrep anyway and explicitly use a regular expression as a safer test.
If it ain't broke, I can fix that.
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Steve Edmunds_2
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‎10-12-2004 04:55 AM

‎10-12-2004 04:55 AM

Re: egrep question

Thanks, that does answer my question.
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