15 Jun
2020
15 Jun
'20
9:19 a.m.
On Mon 2020-06-15 09:55:27, Miroslav Benes wrote:
From https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html#The-Backslash-Character-a... :
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