[colug-432] Question about grep and using " " in bash

[Mike Plemmons]

I have not known it to be necessary.  Although, I like to be quotes around
the regex out of habit because if the regex needs to have spaces then the
quotes are necessary.

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, zach villers <zachvatwork at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a difference between;
>
> ls -l | grep ^...s
>
> AND
>
> ls -l | grep "^...s"
>
> *trying to find files with setuid permission*
>
> A trainer told me using quotes with the grep statement was necessary,
> but it doesn't seem to be.
>
> Thanks!
>
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