Re: Reporting a bug in grep

[John Cowan]

Naresh Ranvah scripsit:

> I was using grep to find a expression 
> ^=
> in a file that contained it. It does not list it.
> 
> So, I use grep to look for the expression
> ^
> and it lists the whole file, definitely a lot of lines that did not have it. 
> I seemed to be finding it in every line even where it wasn't there. Please 
> have a look at it.
> 
> May be I am making mistake, I am naive user or Linux.

You need to use fgrep instead.  The character ^ has special meaning to grep
(the beginning of the line), and can't be used as-is in a grep pattern.

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