Re: grep: RE error in ^*** ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-: repetition-operator operand invalid

[Po Lu]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>>
>> This is what happens when building Emacs on Suns:
>>
>> grep: RE error in ^*** ADVICE-ON-FAILURE-: repetition-operator
>> operand invalid
>>
>
> That seems like a problem with Sun grep, isn't it?  What does it
> expect? Can you try
>
> echo '*** foo' | grep -v '^\*\*\* foo'
>
> and tell us if it works (i.e. if it does not show any output)?

Yes, that works.

Thanks.