From: Rainer Weikusat on
Mateusz_madi <madi.czadi(a)gmail.com> writes:
> I wan't to show all lines from file which consist of only 3 char:
> grep ^.{3}$ file
> Why this does't work?? Isn't it the same as :
> grep ^...$ file ??

The working variant and grep '^...$' are indeed identical.