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

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On 29 Aug 2000, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> 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.

The `*' is the metacharacter: `+' is literal.

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