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From: harris@imsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: is grep broken (4.2)
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Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 17:24:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 13 17:24:06 1984
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Our version of grep does not seem to work properly.
( grep 'am.le' /usr/dict/words ) finds words longer than 5 characters.
It is my understanding that '.' should only match one character.

		Harris Reavin

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