On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 3:33 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: > On Thu Jun 14 04:29:51 EDT 2012, pau...@gmail.com wrote: >> While playing with grep, I was suprised by grep '*\.c' not giving >> an error (* is missing an operand). Arguably * applied to empty > > nope, that's not right. * starting a pattern escapes the whole string. > this is unique to grep. >
Argh, yes, it has a special meaning. I have somehow managed to miss this for all this time. G.
