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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: grep bork
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:56:10 -0000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> Sent: 11 March 2004 11:29

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


D'oh.  I didn't scroll down that far.  Thanks Brian!


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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