grep 'RE botch' error

Barry Shein bzs at bu-cs.BU.EDU
Thu Aug 21 09:58:17 AEST 1986


>	grep '[' file
>
>	gives a 'RE botch' error on our VAX-750 running 4.2BSD.  If the fix
>has already been posted, could someone please mail me the diffs?  Thanks.
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>Narendra Mehta, 

That's not a bug, '[' is special to grep, try '\[' to escape it.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University



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