Re: Switching to mutt

[Jeffrey Haas]

On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 04:04:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > * Sender: .*mutt-users.*
> 
> but then it might expect to find a dot "." after "mutt-users", instead of any
> other character (*), or?

No.  The regular expression . will match any character.  The * will
make zero or more of them.  Thus .* is zero or more of any character.

* by itself doesn't do anything - its a modifier.

man egrep will give you the details you need.

> Horacio.

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