On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 02:22 +1030, Tim wrote: > 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). > Using a URI is not the same as having the bash shell interpret the command line. In bash (and regexes) in the format used above the ^ literally means "line begins with" and the $ means "line ends with" To have it match anywhere in the line you must remove those special characters. Try it yourself if you need proof. > -- > (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. >
