grep command not working as expected

Ceri Davies ceri at submonkey.net
Wed Sep 27 23:42:01 BST 2006


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On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:33:57PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:23:14PM +0100, Stephen Allen wrote:
> > Doh!
> >=20
> > I had to use -F to force the interpretation of fixed-strings.  I dunno=
=20
> > why it made a difference from Linux but it now works.
>=20
> Hmm.  That behaviour isn't clear at all from the manpage, and smells a
> little like a bug.  Might be worth asking on stable at .

Heh, sorry, I was making assumptions there.  I meant that it might be
worth sending a small test case to stable at FreeBSD.org and asking whether
it's a bug or not - I couldn't say either way at the moment.

Ceri
--=20
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere

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