Got several replies.
The escapes were for the shell to ignore them, not grep. Having enclosed the
regular expression in "" (as I would always do), I effectively escaped
everything.
Well, they could have said so in the man pages. "Use this with quotes or escape
it with backslash."
Sorry to bother you and thank you all for reassuring me in my belief of common
principles in UNIX.
Nix.
Received on Tue Feb 06 2001 - 19:31:30 NZDT