On Mon 2020-06-15 09:55:27, Miroslav Benes wrote: > > From > > https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html#The-Backslash-Character-and-Special-Expressions > > : > > > > The ‘\’ character, when followed by certain ordinary characters, takes a > > special meaning: > > > > ... > > > > ‘\<’ > > > > Match the empty string at the beginning of word. > > ‘\>’ > > > > Match the empty string at the end of word. The description is a bit confusing. I wonder how it handles dot, comma, or colon. They are neither empty or word characters. > > > > I'd be happy to use any other (more readable!) whole-word matching grep trick, > > this \<one\> just happens to be committed to my cmdline muscle memory. > > There is 'grep -w' which I use for this. 'grep -w' looks good promissing. Best Regards, Petr
