Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 21:10:08 +0100 From: <rank1seeker@gmail.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: awk's curly braces (regex) Message-ID: <20151104211008.00006c16@gmail.com>
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10.2-RELEASE-p6
# awk --version
awk version 20121220 (FreeBSD)
# echo 2015 | awk '/^[0-9]/ {print}'
Prints '2015'
# echo 2015 | awk '/^[0-9]{4}/ {print}'
Won't
Why range/interval specified via curly braces doesn't work.
PS: Yes I've tried escaping it with backslahes and double backslahes, nada!
man pages:
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Regular expressions are as in egrep; see grep(1).
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Domagoj S.
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