From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: grep does not work with [^...]
Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 03:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <66cd9158-483e-79de-0b69-575c7000347b@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5610703131.20180504182039@yandex.ru>
On 2018-05-04 16:20, Dmitry Lanin wrote:
> Friday, May 4, 2018, 5:03:32 PM, Michel LaBarre wrote:
>>> On May 4, 2018 4:32 PM Dmitry Lanin wrote:
>>> Bug: grep does not work with [^...]
>>> Run the following command:
>>> echo qwe | grep -E '[^r]'
>>> Expected result:
>>> qwe
>>> Actual result:
>>> -nothing-
>> Run it in bash instead.
>> ^ is a quote character in CMD.
> Yes, I guessed it is a special character, so I tried (did not work):
> echo qwe | grep -E '[\^r]'
> I have finally figured out. Using double-quotes work:
> echo qwe | grep -E "[^r]"
Safer to double it under cmd:
> echo ^^
^
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-04 20:32 Bug: " Dmitry Lanin
2018-05-04 21:03 ` Michel LaBarre
2018-05-04 22:21 ` Dmitry Lanin
2018-05-05 3:52 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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