Jacques B.: >> grep -ir "^put sentence here$" * Ingemar Nilsson: > Note that this will only match if the sentence is on a line by itself, > since ^ and $ means beginning of line and end of line respectively. Are you sure about that? I thought they just meant that the string begins with, and ends with, the enclosed characters. I didn't think they actually refered to end-of-line indicators, the same markers are used in wildcarding where there isn't a notion of "lines" (e.g. URIs). -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
