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From: Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:17:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031113161759.GC21872@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CA3@black.aprote.com>

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 01:26:42PM +0200, Tiit Lankots wrote:
> >Seeing as how this is grep, the + is NOT a metacharacter. Thus it's
>
> Not necessarily. GNU grep (by far the most widespread by now) is using
> the 'extended' syntax where + IS a metacharacter.

only if you ask it to do so (i think via 'grep -E')

-taj


       reply	other threads:[~2003-11-13 16:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <81132473206F3A46A72BD6116E1A06AE479CA3@black.aprote.com>
2003-11-13 16:17 ` Taj Khattra [this message]
     [not found] <c40d2beae31a26c28b62b84dbf5acba0@hamnavoe.com>
2003-11-13 22:51 ` Bruce Ellis
2003-11-13 23:10   ` Charles Forsyth

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