As title says, what does grep ^- mean in UNIX?
I know what grep is but not the metacharater ^- part.
As title says, what does grep ^- mean in UNIX? I know what grep
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As title says, what does grep ^- mean in UNIX?
I know what grep is but not the metacharater ^- part.
^is the regular expression meta character for start of line-in this context is not a metacharacterThis expression therefore matches any – character at the start of a line and with grep will return any line starting with –
will match
Won’t match