Re: [ILUG] Greping for ***

From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain linux.ie)
Date: Mon 31 Jul 2000 - 22:43:19 IST


On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:24:17PM +0000, Diarmaid O'Loughlin wrote:
> Well is there any way to grep for errors in compiling something, ie to
> grep for *** ?
>
> man grep don't show anything, at least not in human readable form :-)

You should have looked harder :-)

    The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions
    that match a single character. Most characters, including all
    letters and digits, are regular expressions that match themselves.
** Any metacharacter with special meaning may be quoted by preceding
** it with a backslash.

Later,
Kenn



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