From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Taj Khattra <taj.khattra@pobox.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] configure misery
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:17:59 -0800
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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