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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: grep 'RE botch' error
Message-ID: <1080@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 20-Aug-86 19:58:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: bu-cs.1080
Posted: Wed Aug 20 19:58:17 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Aug-86 02:13:26 EDT
Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci.
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>	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