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From: "Andrew DeFaria" <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: grep problems
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:25:12 -0700
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"Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna AT efn DOT org> wrote in message
news:20040614084213 DOT GA2640 AT efn DOT org...
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:29:13AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote:
> > > I have upgraded to latest release of Cygwin and this has not
> > > changed things. I have tried the above on a Windows 98 and
> > > Windows XP system as well - same results.
> > >
> > > Any ideas how I get around this problem ?
> >
> > Learn the syntax. Backslashes have to be escaped by a backslash
> > ;-)
>
> Looks like a cmd.exe shell to me, so no they don't.

Well cmd.exe may not consume backslashes as indications of escaping the next
character, I would think that grep would.

> Also looks like
> a non-cygwin grep; at least I can't get grep to say "GREP:".

That may be.




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