Re: bug with grep 2.3 - 2.4.2 on Intel Redhat

[Paul Holcomb]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 07:27:42PM -0500, Erik Pennebaker wrote:
> Okay, yer right, but you don't want the \*, just *.  The \* would
> look for the literal '*'

 Sorry, my mistake.  I didn't actually cut and paste what I was typing.

 grep soc*
 -or-
 grep 'soc*'
 -or-
 grep soc\*

 In addition, I was able to verify this same bug exists with grep 2.1
 on sun4u Solaris 2.8 and grep 2.3 on sun4u Solaris 2.6, so it doesn't
 seem to be platform or architecture related.

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