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how to pass \b to grep on w32?
From: |
John Steele Scott |
Subject: |
how to pass \b to grep on w32? |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:28:37 +0930 |
Hi,
I am trying to pass the following to M-x grep:
grep -nHr --include=*.c . -e \bWORD\b
On my GNU/Linux system, this works (if I put quotes around the regexp
and include string), but on Windows XP, it doesn't work (no matches are
found, when I know there should be some). If I just have WORD as the
regexp, it works fine, but it's matching DWORD, and I only want to find
WORD (I'm trying to make a 16-bit program 32-bit clean, blech).
It seems to me that something is fouling up the \b part of the regexp.
Can someone tell me how to get the \b through to grep?
I am using Emacs 21.3.50.8 of 2003-12-29 from TEI Emacs, but I have
replaced the grep from TEI by GNU Grep 2.5.1 from the GNUWin32 project.
cheers,
John
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John Steele Scott <=