On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Mike Hicks wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:16 -0600, Don Sparish wrote: >> Is Solaris Ass Backward or what. >> >> I can get an exact string match in AIX, Linux, HPUX but not in >> SlowLaris. > > Please define "exact string match". I thought that was what grep > usually does... Do you want to match an entire line? A substring > bounded by some sort of delimeter (a colon, comma, or similar)? [snip] > I agree with Mike Miller -- if your /usr/xpg4/bin/grep is not accepting > '-E', '-x', or '-w' at all, then it's a broken binary. Thanks for all the other Solaris info that I did not repeat in this reply. They guy wasn't all that competent as some of you noticed. In fact, the reason for his problems (he admitted to me) was that he was using backticks to enclose the pattern: grep `pattern` file He called them "graven quotes." His report of his error messages might have been inaccurate. Anyway, he asked me how to unsubscribe and I told him to follow the link at the bottom of his message, so he may be gone now. Mike