In article <4xmQycun8rIU092yn@ibm.net>,
rgriech@ibm.net (Hardy Griech) wrote:
> Yes, it uses regular expressions! I am wondering why the above
> expression is killing any '$50,000' article, because the '$' means
> 'matching end of line'...
It only means that if it's the *last* character in the regexp. If
it is followed by any data characters, it should be taken as the
literal character '$'.
I believed this is covered by 'man ed' and 'man grep'.
Galactus
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