On 2006-02-17 Victor Porton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Package: findutils
> Version: 4.2.27-1
> Severity: normal
> find -name "*.gz" \! -regex '.*\n.*'
> The above command produces listing of zero files, even if there are *.gz
> files (without \n in filename) in the current directory.
[...]
Hello,
Is there any documentation that \n *should* actually work? This does:
find -name "*.gz" \! -regex '.*
.*'
Compare with grep. - \t in the matching pattern matches a literal "\t"
but not a tabulator character. - A literal tab-character (inserted
with "Ctlr-v <Tab>" works as expected.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ printf 'foo\tbar\nblah\nbackslasht \\t\n' \
| egrep '\t'
backslasht \t
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ printf 'foo\tbar\nblah\nbackslasht \\t\n' \
| grep '\t'
backslasht \t
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ printf 'foo\tbar\nblah\nbackslasht \\t\n' \
| grep ' '
foo bar
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cu andreas
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