4 Jan
2015
4 Jan
'15
06:41
В Sat, 03 Jan 2015 23:06:44 +0100
"Carlos E. R."
On 2015-01-03 15:30, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Also "*" doesn't work with egrep, it must be ".*" When using regexp, "e*" means "zero or more 'e'"
Thank-you. I was hoping it would be a wildcard for any characters thereafter.
Not if the command uses the "regexp" syntax (or regular expresions).
In Linux they are documented under regex(7) manual page.
It can be confusing. "egrep" uses it, "grep" does not.
Both grep and egrep are using regular expressions; difference is between basic and extended. But meaning of '.' and '*' remains the same in both cases.