Re: [Hampshire] Pipe issues

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Author: Leo
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Pipe issues
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:05:42PM +0100, Leo wrote:
>> Still don't understand why anacron requires my script to have it though,
>> when the script works fine when called directly from the command line.
>
> I'd love to know why this ever worked. Things like that bother me.
> As far as I am aware, "\s" isn't anything special in a basic or
> extended regular expression, only a Perl one, and you'd need to do
> grep -P to enable those.
>
> What shell do you use on the command line? (echo $SHELL)
>
> What's in your environment? ("set" - then maybe put the output in a
> pastebin like pastie.org)
>
> Or have I missed something obvious?
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>
>


I'm using the debian standard shell, so bash. And I haven't knowingly
changed anything in the environment.

Sorry, what is a pastebin - I haven't come across it before.

Leo