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Re: Just want to exclude lines with tabs
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Just want to exclude lines with tabs |
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Thu, 19 May 2016 08:42:57 -0600 |
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On 05/18/2016 09:17 PM, xyz2041 wrote:
> Hi,
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> I just want to exclude lines that have tabs on them.
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> I've tried all of these, but none work.
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> What am I missing?
Grep doesn't interpret \t as a valid escape sequence. This works:
$ printf 'a a\nb\tb\nc c\n' | grep -v $'\t'
a a
c c
if your shell is new enough to have $'' support; otherwise, type a
literal tab in your shell window (often by 'ctrl-v tab' or 'ctrl-v
ctrl-i'), and be sure you properly quote it.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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