"Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes" <sthoenna@efn.org> wrote in message news:20040614084213.GA2640@efn.org... > On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 10:29:13AM +0200, J?rg Schaible wrote: > > > I have upgraded to latest release of Cygwin and this has not > > > changed things. I have tried the above on a Windows 98 and > > > Windows XP system as well - same results. > > > > > > Any ideas how I get around this problem ? > > > > Learn the syntax. Backslashes have to be escaped by a backslash > > ;-) >> Looks like a cmd.exe shell to me, so no they don't. Well cmd.exe may not consume backslashes as indications of escaping the next character, I would think that grep would. > Also looks like > a non-cygwin grep; at least I can't get grep to say "GREP:". That may be. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/