Good ${greeting_time}, Markus!

14 Nov 2017 11:23:22, you wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:

 AV>>> gremlin@fido:~ > grep ^link ~/fido/etc/links | wc -l
 AV>>> 202
 CS>> Smile, you may have to explain that to the average person
 MR> Unfortunately his search pattern isn't specific enough to catch only
 MR> the links, since there are several keyworks starting with "link".

However, it does exactly that.

 MR> grep -ic "^link\s" ~/fido/etc/links

\s doesn't work there, but:

gremlin@fido:~ > grep -ic '^link ' ~/fido/etc/links
202

 MR> Sorry! I couldn't resist ;)

/me too :-)


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