On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:00:09 +0200, Daniel Mentz
<usenet@fire-of-desire.de> wrote:
> I have some problems with grep and BRE (Basic Regular Expressions).
> According to my documentation, a caret which is not the first character in
> a BRE matches a literal caret.
>
> The following command should find all lines containing "xx^x":
> grep "xx^x"
>
> But it doesn't match lines containing "xx^x".
>
> Whereas
> grep ".x^x"
> works fine. It matches "xx^x"
>
> Could somebody explain to me why the first command isn't working as
> expected.
> I'm using grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
>
It looks to me like you have discovered a bug. xx\^x will also work.


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