[WBEL-users] grep help

[Jon Lewis]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, William Hooper wrote:

>
> Timothy Nash said:
> [snip]
> > grep hostname$ hosts returns all 4 entries
>
> On WBEL or Solaris?  As I showed earlier, it works on WBEL for me.  What
> does "grep -V" output?  Is it different between Solaris and WBEL?

Is it different? :)
I'm a few versions behind in Solaris familiarity, but they didn't used to
use much (anything?) in the way of GNU utils...so you can pretty much
bet that any utils on a Solaris box will have some limited / perhaps
different subset of features the GNU equivalents found on most Linux
distros have.

$ grep -V
grep: illegal option -- V
Usage: grep -hblcnsviw pattern file . . .

The original poster's friend's problems might be solved by installation of
GNU utils.

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