On Sunday 25 May 2008, »Q« wrote: > On Sat, 24 May 2008 17:57:45 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 24 May 2008, Robin Atwood wrote: > > > But why does "[[:space:]]+" work and "\s+" fail? > > > > Apparently because \s is not a synonym for [[:space:]] > > As Robin's already pointed out, \s is part of Perl's regex syntax. If > you've compiled grep with the pcre useflag, you can use grep -P
Thanks for that, \s is a lot easier to read than [[:space:]]! -Robin -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
