On Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:30 AM The Wanderer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2021-04-23 at 11:27, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 07:50:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> grep -i 'fs|filesystem'" finds rmlint, which looks like it might do > >> the > > > > FYI that needs to be egrep, or grep -E, in order for the | character > > to work as you intend. > > Yeah - sorry, I retyped rather than copying, and didn't realize the > difference it made until I'd already hit Send. > > It always seems bizarre to me that that would be one of the characters > that needs escaping to have a special function in standard regex, and > consequently I always have trouble remembering it... > If it helps, they're both meta-characters. Logical notation embedded in a command stream. So both need to "escape" into logic from command-line reality :-) The Wanderer > > The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one > persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all > progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw > >
