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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Egrep issue Post 302816797 by Scrutinizer on Tuesday 4th of June 2013 03:17:26 PM
Old 06-04-2013
The asterisks would need to be escaped from shell, but also from grep:
Code:
grep -Ei "\*\*(yes|no)\*\*" file

Unless the -F option is used. Try:
Code:
grep -Fie '**yes**' -e '**no**' file

 

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wscrl

scrl(3XCURSES)						  X/Open Curses Library Functions					    scrl(3XCURSES)

NAME

       scrl, scroll, wscrl - scroll a window

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag... ] file... -I /usr/xpg4/include -L /usr/xpg4/lib 
       -R /usr/xpg4/lib -lcurses [ library... ]

       c89 [ flag... ] file... -lcurses [ library... ]

       #include <curses.h>

       int scrl(int n);

       int scroll(WINDOW *win);

       int wscrl(WINDOW *win, int n);

PARAMETERS

       n		       number and direction of lines to scroll

       win		       pointer to the window in which to scroll

DESCRIPTION

       The scroll() function scrolls the window win up one line.  The current cursor position is not changed.

       The  scrl() and wscrl() functions scroll the window stdscr or win up or down n lines, where n is a positive (scroll up) or negative (scroll
       down) integer.

       The scrollok(3XCURSES) function must be enabled for these functions to work.

RETURN VALUES

       On success, these functions return OK. Otherwise, they return ERR.

ERRORS

       None.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |Unsafe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       clearok(3XCURSES), libcurses(3XCURSES), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    5 Jun 2002							    scrl(3XCURSES)
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