Randy Dunlap (26/04/2011): > ad I don't see any environment variables that would affect grep either. > > Anyway, using this line instead of any one of the lines above works for me: > > documented=$(sed '1,/^00-INDEX$/d' 00-INDEX|grep -G -v ^[[:space:]]|sed 's:/$::') > > i.e., use ^[[:space:]] instead of the (original) '^\s'. Hm, I still can't reproduce your original issue, even with a Fedora 11 system; but anyway, using [[:space:]] looks good. In the upcoming patch I'm also dropping -G: It's the default for GNU grep, and it's not POSIX-documented[1] anyway. 1. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/grep.html Thanks, and sorry for the extra round-trips for such a simple patch. KiBi.