<div dir="ltr">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.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:51 AM, zach villers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zachvatwork@gmail.com" target="_blank">zachvatwork@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Is there a difference between;<br>
<br>
ls -l | grep ^...s<br>
<br>
AND<br>
<br>
ls -l | grep "^...s"<br>
<br>
*trying to find files with setuid permission*<br>
<br>
A trainer told me using quotes with the grep statement was necessary,<br>
but it doesn't seem to be.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
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