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Re: egrep -i -c

From: Paolo Bonzini
Subject: Re: egrep -i -c
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:48:28 +0100
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On 03/10/2011 02:32 PM, Bogdan Sass wrote:

     I have encountered the following problem when attempting to combine
the "case insensitive" and "count matches" option of egrep:

address@hidden:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english |
wc -l
50
address@hidden:~# egrep -i "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english  -c
98297
address@hidden:~# egrep -ic "^[^a-r]*$" /usr/share/dict/british-english
98297

     The match is done correctly, but when I try to count the matches
directly from egrep I get way too many results. Is there anything I am
doing wrong here?


What version of grep is this?  It works for me with 2.7.

Paolo
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