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Re: egrep man page -- possible error
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: egrep man page -- possible error |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Jun 2002 17:20:15 -0400 |
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Atul Saroop <address@hidden> wrote:
> "A list of characters enclosed by [ and ] matches any single
> character in that list; if the first character of the list is the
> caret ^ then it matches any character not in the list. "
>
> and then goes on to say that
>
> "The caret ^ and the dollar sign $ are metacharacters that
> respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a
> line."
>
> My knowledge tells me that the first statement has an error, and the
> second one is correct.
Both are correct. "^" takes on different meanings inside and outside
brackets.
paul