[SWLUG] grep question

[hobbit at aloss.ukuu.org.uk]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 11:44:55AM +0000 or thereabouts, bascule wrote:
> 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! :-)

Damned red herrings. Make the penguin eat them!

Telsa