Re: egrep -i -c

[Bogdan Sass]

On 11/03/2011 12:48, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 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.
address@hidden:~# egrep -V
GNU grep 2.6.3

    The default version installed by Ubuntu 10.10. There doesn't seem 
to be an updated version in the Ubuntu repositories...

    Thank you,

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Bogdan Sass
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