[SWLUG] grep question

[bascule]

yeah, i'm fairly certain that my system isn't broken re: $IFS, turns out that 
i hadn't fully understood that the default for grep was to use 'basic' 
regular expressions but the script i was telling you about aliased grep with 
'egrep' which apparently treats ()s as special characters, and these were in 
all the patterns that i was having problems with! the presence of spaces 
seems to be a red herring! :-)

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:23 am, you wrote:
> Oh, cool! I have been playing around with this, but in the chat
> at the party, that damned IFS (internal field separator) was
> mentioned, and I wasted a lot of time discovering I had absolutely
> no idea what I was doing with it. My bash book (O'Reilly: Learning
> the bash shell) has examples of how to *add* stuff to that, but
> not how to remove it.

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