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

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Aug 29, 2000, Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> `+' isn't a portable literal.  Some implementations seem to use it as
>> a meta-character with the usual meaning, but without support for it
>> after `*'.

> Alexandre, could you be more exact?

No.  I seem to recall some comments about non-portability of `+', and
certainly associated them with this bug report when it came up.  In
other words, don't pay attention to what I wrote.  If Paul said it's
ok to assume `+' is not a meta-character in `grep', I believe it.

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