Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Wolf Canis <wolf.canis@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 16:04:50
Message-Id: 48383C67.8030104@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Need help with a regex by Robin Atwood
1 Robin Atwood wrote:
2 > grep -e ^\s+provide\s+\w /etc/init.d
3 >
4 > but, as usual, nothing is matched. What am I doing wrong?
5
6 You have to use back slashed versions of metacharacters. Following
7 how would do that:
8
9 $ grep -e '^[[:space:]]\+provide[[:space:]]\+[a-z]\+' /etc/init.d/*
10 /etc/init.d/syslog-ng: provide logger
11 /etc/init.d/vixie-cron: provide cron
12
13
14 W. Canis

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