<div dir="ltr">Also, some dialects escape the "+" RE since it's a (relatively) common character in text. The same is true of bananas -- '(' matches itself, but '\(' matches the leftparen RE. NB here that I have to escape the escape in order to get it though shell command-line processing:<div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>!:/home/cshapiro/Mapping_Contracts/forsythco> ls -l | grep "[abc]+" | wc -l</div><div>0</div></div><div><br></div><div><div>!:/home/cshapiro/Mapping_Contracts/forsythco> ls -l | grep "[abc]\\+" | wc -l</div><div>632</div><div><br></div></div><div><div>!:/home/cshapiro/Mapping_Contracts/forsythco> uname -a</div><div>Linux roo 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux</div><div>!:/home/cshapiro/Mapping_Contracts/forsythco> grep -V</div><div>grep (GNU grep) 2.20</div><div>Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</div><div>License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <<a href="http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html</a>>.</div><div>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.</div><div>There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.</div><div><br></div><div>Written by Mike Haertel and others, see <<a href="http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS">http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS</a>>.</div><div>!:/home/cshapiro/Mapping_Contracts/forsythco> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div>It's the Little Things in Life...</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:02 AM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 09/25/2016 10:27 AM, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>
> I think egrep is just a hardlink to grep ... and enabled the -E switch.<br>
<br>
</span>I'm wrong again! They have different inodes.<br>
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