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Article #1646Re: grep 'RE botch' error
From: John Sloan
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1986 19:20
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1986 19:20
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> > grep '[' file > > > > gives a 'RE botch' error on our VAX-750 running 4.2BSD. > >Narendra Mehta, > That's not a bug, '[' is special to grep, try '\[' to escape it. > -Barry Shein, Boston University There is still a bug though: while [ is a special pattern operator to grep, a single [ as in the example causes my 4.2BSD grep to go into a loop issuing the "RE botch" error over and over. So while the error message is legitimate, the ungraceful nonrecovery is not. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Sloan CSNET: jsloan@WRIGHT.EDU Wright State University USENET: ...!cbosgd!wright!jsloan Computer Science and Engineering ARPANET: jsloan%wright@CSNET-RELAY Dayton, OH 45435 DECNET LAN: wright::jsloan +1 513 873 2491, 2987 SMTP LAN: jsloan@wright UNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T. Opinions expressed are my own. "I was a roadie for the Algorithmics on their 1986 Internet Tour"
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!caip!princeton!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!cbosgd!wright!jsloan From: jsloan@wright.EDU (John Sloan) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: grep 'RE botch' error Message-ID: <164@wright.EDU> Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 15:20:30 EDT Article-I.D.: wright.164 Posted: Fri Aug 22 15:20:30 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Aug-86 10:24:30 EDT References: <1080@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU> Organization: Wright State University, Dayton OH, 45435 Lines: 20