Re: Regular expression with egrep question...

On Jan 4, 7:31 am, somebody <s...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why will this regex match lines in myfile.txt which begin with a space:

egrep '^\ ' myfile.txt

And this one does not:

egrep '^\s+' myfile.txt

I thought tat the \s is space, and the + denotes more than one?
I tried using the -e switch to egrep too. Essentially I'm simply
trying to match lines like this:

Line one
Line two
Line three
Line four

-Thanks

maybe i am missing something..

sed -n "/^ /p" file
.

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