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Re: Why does grep [^0-9] become grep u?


From: David Liontooth
Subject: Re: Why does grep [^0-9] become grep u?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:14:59 -0800
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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> David Liontooth <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   
>> Something on my system got reset -- any new terminal I open interprets
>> [^0-9] as u.  What's going on?
>>     
>
> You have a file named u in the current directory.
>   
Thanks -- that's what I discovered. Would you mind explaining to me why
grep looks at file names when all I want it to look at what I echo?
Can I tell it not to look at file names?

Dave





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