Chambers <bdc### [at] yahoocom> wrote:
> That's what I would have thought, but I found that \. didn't return any matches,
> whereas [.] did.  Probably a quirk of the version I was using.

  How are you running grep? And from where?

  If you give a regexp to grep as a command-line parameter, remember to
always escape the entire regexp so that the shell won't mess it up. In
other words:

   grep 'ing\.'

not:

   grep ing\.

which will end up completely different when grep sees it.

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                                                          - Warp

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