Mea culpa :-(
Twice over in fact.
1. I hadn't noticed that the files in question were all DOS files sent to me
by a windows user ( so trailing $ searches failed) and
2. I hadn't noticed that all lines started with a space.
Elderly blindness. Sorry.
Cheers,
Stephen
On 09/07/14 14:08, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/09/14 12:21, Stephen Davies wrote:
On 09/07/14 13:47, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 07/08/2014 08:47 PM, Stephen Davies wrote:
Any ideas?
Any details?
For example,
/^xx
or
:g/^xx/s/xx/yy/
in vi finds nothing in a file with many lines starting with xx.
Similarly grep -E "^xx" and gawk '/^xx/{print}'.
In all cases, omitting the ^ finds the relevant lines (plus a whole lot more).
Difference: one with and one without regex.
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ cat stuff
This is a file with xx stuff in it.
This doesn't start with xx
xx but this does
x and this does not
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ grep -E "^xx" stuff
xx but this does
Fully updated this AM.
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