[Gllug] problems with grep

[Dan Kolb]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 04:40:48PM +0000, Anthony Newman wrote:
> charles wrote:
> >grep -E 'e$' words2.txt 
> >
> >doesn't work either. Any more suggestions?
> 
> Yes it does. What platform and version of grep are you using? My 
> suggestion works fine on a newish Linux box (GNU grep), on a Solaris 8 
> Sparc box (horrid Sun grep), a Cobalt RaQ running Linux 2.0, etc. It 
> basically works everywhere, even without the -E 'extended' flag that I 
> think is a GNU feature ;-)

Not entirely :-) OpenBSD's grep (not GNU) also honours the -E flag. As for a
useful suggestion, if it is an errant ^M creeping in, then the following should
work:

cat words2.txt | td -d "\r" | grep "e$"

Dan
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