Re: Allan: follow up on build problems for Solaris

[Allan Rae]

On 15 Jan 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Allan> I thought, perhaps mistakenly, that grep didn't do ".*"
> Allan> matching except in GNU form. Anyway as I said I didn't write
> Allan> this but figured someone, maybe Lars, had a reason for using
> Allan> `grep -E` in the first place.
>
> You mean you thought grep did not do regular expressions? So, what
> does the 're' stand for?

Sure but there are re's and re's.   * and .* may be different things
depending on whos re-engine you are using.

I thought egrep handled '.*' as grep handles '*'.  If they are in fact the
same then WTF does egrep really do?

Allan. (ARRae)