[H-GEN] Scripting guide

Sandra Mansell fakungabubu at gmail.com
Thu May 25 02:52:13 EDT 2006


Kelvin Heng wrote:

> Test 3:
> $ grep "a.a" testfile
> aaa
> a.a
> 
If I'm remembering my regular expressions correctly, a . means any 
single character (and I think I'm remembering correctly based on your 
output). I think you may have to escape it in order to use it, and 
that'd be \ character, so "a\.a" or some such.

HTH,

Sandra.
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