Re: [9fans] grep (or perhaps regex(6)) question

[Rudolf Sykora]

> that is, p9p grep matches any line with regular expression in form of
> $ANY_REGEX
>
> why is it so?

Why (the very mechanism) is one question. Whether it should or should
not be so is another. Is this subtlety important? (I.e. can't it be
implementation dependent as the correct behaviour seems undefined [to
me]?)

Thanks
Ruda