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in thread Confusing grep behavior

It's not a Mac thing. 5.8.5 on Linux allows it as well. I'm guessing it's a bug that was fixed in 5.8.7 or 5.8.8.

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Re^4: Confusing grep behavior
by dextius (Monk) on Dec 05, 2007 at 00:44 UTC
    Thanks, I wasn't aware of the bug, and was just confused since I wasn't getting a syntax error.
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