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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
@jackie_w: There's a quirk involved in that it understands a specific syntax/subset of regex by default, while -E enables another syntax with more features  .
And no, I can never remember which is which, so, I tend to bring out the big guns by default ;p. |
I think \s* is about as basic as regex gets so I'll document it with the simpler -q option.