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Re: grep question



On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 04:41:08PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> In the grep's info page I find the following which works as said.  But
> I want to know why.  What does the [c] do in this case?

'[abc]' matches any of the characters a, b, and c. '[c]' matches exactly
a 'c', so '[c]ron' matches only 'cron'. Crucially, '[c]ron' doesn't
match itself.

I often find it more convenient to use the 'c' flag to ps, such as 'ps
acx | grep cron'.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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