Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20000825141913.3745.qmail@web123.yahoomail.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 07:19:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Subject: Re: issue with grep [^] To: RPraetorius AT AspenRes DOT Com, Jeff Jensen Cc: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Robert Praetorius wrote: > > If I type: > > cat x.txt | grep \\-[0-9]\) > > it works great - the lines containing it are correctly returned. > > > > But typing: > > cat x.txt | grep \\-[^0-9]\) > > doesn't work - the same result occurs as the first case above, like the ^ > is > > ignored. > > ^ is the quoting character for NT's CMD.EXE (bash doesn't exhibit > this problem). Also note that CMD.EXE requires | must be double > quoted if you're passing it through a pipe (again bash doesn't need > this): > > F:\temp>echo ^| | cat > The syntax of the command is incorrect. > > F:\temp>echo ^^^| | cat > | > > F:\temp>bash > $ echo \| | cat > | > $ echo \\\| | cat > \| > Hi Robert and Jeff, Robert, did you try this in bash? It doesn't work. It *is* broken. I've found no work around. I doubt that this would be a Cygwin bug but maybe 1.1.4 has it fixed. I'm running currently a 1.1.3 build from 6/20/2000. Cheers, ===== --- Earnie Boyd: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com