Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:13:40 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Grep for tab character Message-ID: <20050220051340.GA30669@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 03:55:35PM +1100, Robert Mark Bram wrote: >I cannot seem to use grep for tabs. Here is what I have tried.. > >And these lines show how I am trying to grep for tab, but with no luck! > >Robert Mark Bram - /tmp >$grep -e [\\t]How test.txt > >Robert Mark Bram - /tmp >$grep -e [\t]How test.txt > >Robert Mark Bram - /tmp >$grep -e "[\t]How" test.txt > >Robert Mark Bram - /tmp >$grep -e "[\\t]How" test.txt > >Robert Mark Bram - /tmp >$ > >Am I missig something? Or is it cygwin grep? How about just using the actual tab character? I don't see any indication that grep is supposed to treat '\t' specially and it seems to behave that way on linux, too. What's wrong with just using tab? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/