Re: grep -E ? (Was: Compilation problem solved)

[Lars Hecking]

Alexandre Oliva writes:
> On Aug 29, 2000, Earnie Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK '^ *+' is a regular expression and not an extended regular
> > expression.
> 
> `+' after `*' isn't portable, IIRC.  In fact, I don't understand what
> we're trying to accomplish with that construct.  It makes no sense at
> all to me.
 
 That's what I wrote to Earnie. To match a literal plus sign, it
 needs to be escaped.