> -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Brian Dessent > Sent: 11 March 2004 11:29
> From the grep manpage: > > > In basic regular expressions the metacharacters ?, +, {, |, > (, and > > ) lose their special meaning; instead use the > backslashed versions > > \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \). D'oh. I didn't scroll down that far. Thanks Brian! cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/