06-11-2012
@alister, it may be interesting to add that like grep, sed is also line oriented, but that it does have the ability to match \n which can occur through the use of N or H commands. But indeed \n loses its meaning withing square brackets. \n is not part of POSIX regular expression, but for this POSIX sed has an addition:
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The escape sequence '\n' shall match a <newline> embedded in the pattern space
sed: regular expressions
POSIX awk goes even further, as it extends POSIX regular expressions, to include the C-language extensions and they are valid within bracket extensions...
Quote:
The awk utility shall make use of the extended regular expression notation (see XBD Extended Regular Expressions ) except that it shall allow the use of C-language conventions for escaping special characters within the EREs, as specified in the table in XBD File Format Notation ( '\\' , '\a' , '\b' , '\f' , '\n' , '\r' , '\t' , '\v' ) and the following table; these escape sequences shall be recognized both inside and outside bracket expressions. Note that records need not be separated by <newline> characters and string constants can contain <newline> characters, so even the "\n" sequence is valid in awk EREs.
awk: regular expressions
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GREP(1) General Commands Manual GREP(1)
NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern
SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ...
OPTIONS
-e -e pattern is the same as pattern
-c Print a count of lines matched
-i Ignore case
-l Print file names, no lines
-n Print line numbers
-s Status only, no printed output
-v Select lines that do not match
EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse
grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit
DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions
accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1
occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a
match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is
returned.
SEE ALSO
cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9).
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