Eric Sunshine <sunshine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Not according to grep's documentation.The '^' and '.' tokens in the grep expression also are not necessarily portable since they are considered part of the "extended" regular expression syntax which is provided by 'egrep' or 'grep -E'.
In the grep documentation on NextStep, for instance, the '^' and '.' tokens are mentioned only in the 'egrep' section.
-- ES
