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Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2004 03:29:11 -0800
From:	Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: grep bork
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Dave Korn wrote:

> Ok, since when has the plus sign been a bash metachar?  I'm sure I've never
> had to escape it before, but am I remembering wrong?

From the grep manpage:

> In basic regular expressions the metacharacters ?, +, {, |,  (,  and  )
> lose  their  special  meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?,
> \+, \{, \|, \(, and \).

Since you're calling grep as just "grep" (and not egrep or "grep -E")
you're using basic regexps, not extended.

Brian

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