Re: Allan: follow up on build problems for Solaris

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

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

In normal mode, ()| are plain characters and you must use \(\|\) for
grouping. In 'e' mode, (|) are active. There are a few other
differences of this sort. In any case, I think the functionality of
the different modes is the same.

JMarc