is grep broken (4.2)

[leed]

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Let us not forget that grep also accepts the meta-characters '<' and '>' for
word boundry matching.  Yes, it's true that the dictionary is set up with
one word per line, but in the more general sense, one could search using:

	grep '\<am.le\>' any_file_name

And this would find 'ample', but not 'trample'.  The reason for needing both
quotes and the back-slash is that the quotes are to satisfy the shell
that the commands are executed in, and the back-slashes are to tell grep that
the less-than and greater-than signs are meta-characters.  Without the back-
slashes, grep thinks you want to match on a real less-than or greater-than
sign!

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