[gentoo-user] Need help with a regex

[Robin Atwood]

Regexs are not my strong point! I am trying to get a list of service scripts 
that provide virtual services. Each such script contains a line like:

	provide dns

i.e. the line starts with one or more spaces, followed by the text "provide", 
followed by one or more spaces and a single word. i have come up with:

	 grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d

but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?

TIA
-Robin












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