On Tue Jul  5 08:42:16 EDT 2011, rudolf.syk...@gmail.com wrote:
> >> that is, p9p grep matches any line with regular expression in form of
> >> $ANY_REGEX
> >>
> >> why is it so?
> >
> > this is a bug.  see the grammar in regexp(6).
> > plan 9 grep does not have this problem.
> >
> > - erik
> 
> I am sorry, but I don't understand.
> What do you mean is wrong, Erik?

there should be no match to the re $junk.
it's impossible for there to be text after then
end of line.  plan 9 does this correctly,
my version of p9p (which may differ by
being out-of-date) does not.

- erik

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