[Gllug] problems with grep

[Nix]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Dan Kolb gibbered uncontrollably:
> 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.

-E and -F are the POSIX-mandated replacements for egrep and fgrep, which
POSIX says are obsolescent. So everyone should hopefully support
them eventually.

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