Re: bug with grep 2.3 - 2.4.2 on Intel Redhat

[Paul Holcomb]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 01:55:00PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Paul Holcomb <address@hidden> writes:
> >  Sorry, my mistake.  I didn't actually cut and paste what I was typing.
> > 
> >  grep soc*
> >  -or-
> >  grep 'soc*'
> >  -or-
> >  grep soc\*
> 
> Um, you do realize that the `*' operator can match _0_ instances of its
> operand, don't you?  E.g., `soggy' matches `so' + 0 instances of `c'.


  *hang head*  This will teach me to make bug reports on so little
  sleep.  Next time I'll make certain more than a couple people double
  check something like this.

  My strong apologies.

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Paul Holcomb                               *pholcomb    \@      cpoint  net*
Sr. Network Engineer                       Counterpoint Networking, Inc.