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Re: colors too much when pattern is dot
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: colors too much when pattern is dot |
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Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:01:29 -0400 |
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On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mikel Ward wrote:
> With GREP_COLOR enabled, grep --color=auto colors the entire line when
> the pattern is "." or "^.".
>
> It's not a big problem, and maybe my understanding is wrong, but I
> would expect the . to match only the first character, and hence only
> the first character should be colored.
that isnt how grep works. grep isnt line based like sed, so grepping for "."
should match every character.
grepping for "^." however should only match the first character, but that
seems to be fixed with 2.5.3, so ...
-mike
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