Re: Reporting a bug in grep

[Chuck Swiger]

Naresh Ranvah wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was using grep to find a expression 
> ^=
> in a file that contained it. It does not list it.

The "^" means "not" in regex.  If you want to search for the literal string 
"^=", rather than matching lines which do not contain an "="'s, try using "grep 
-F" or "fgrep" instead.

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-Chuck