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.
HTH, Stephen