On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 02:16:21PM +0930, Stephen Davies wrote:
Mea culpa :-(
Twice over in fact.
- 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
- I hadn't noticed that all lines started with a space.
Elderly blindness. Sorry.
A weakly related note about regexes; if your regex uses ranges, or character classes, your results may vary depending on your current locale!