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From: Gorka Guardiola <paurea@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] empty *
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:50:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACm3i_jd2+16yvPuzTSgfKJuAakFGxiqK4gfDMOp1wPaH_Ge_g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bde03463397ba24970245ad81af1f698@coraid.com>

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:46 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>> cpu%  echo hola | grep '*'
>> grep: *: syntax error
>> cpu%  echo hola | grep ''
>> grep: empty pattern
>>
>>
>> grep '*' and grep '' should still be the same, shouldn't they?
>
> yes, but does it matter?

Probably not.

G.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-14 14:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CACm3i_g9m6sVaBvvydKYyBxwE=NGYmhmpM4Nko6gE5uUngSwXA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-14 13:33 ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-14 13:38   ` Gorka Guardiola
     [not found]   ` <CACm3i_hoeuq10w5=Ri+-nocm1Str2USwTBW1m5iuhSxdU3_pMA@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-14 13:44     ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-14 14:00       ` tlaronde
2012-06-14 14:13         ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-06-14 14:36           ` tlaronde
2012-06-14 14:49             ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-14 15:08               ` tlaronde
     [not found]         ` <CACm3i_hRKnkDW6SgFQQ3B4zfr3UHim=-x_uA0iYYRzZz0W8Xag@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-14 14:46           ` erik quanstrom
2012-06-14 14:50             ` Gorka Guardiola [this message]
2012-06-14 14:05       ` Lucio De Re
2012-06-14  8:28 Gorka Guardiola
2012-06-14  9:32 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2012-06-14  9:54   ` Gorka Guardiola
2012-06-14  9:42 ` Anthony Martin
2012-06-14 13:29   ` erik quanstrom
     [not found] ` <CAM6ozu51kzDLxB0KoT96udomrKyHWuHvwqSum6=aXmonpr8kXQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-06-14 13:28   ` erik quanstrom

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