Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:10:37 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Nejc =?utf-8?q?=C5=A0koberne?= <nejc@skoberne.net> Subject: Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD Message-ID: <200802291410.45509.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <47C85417.7020308@skoberne.net> References: <20080228182457.0f773080.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> <200802291324.41438.josh@tcbug.org> <47C85417.7020308@skoberne.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Friday 29 February 2008 01:51:03 pm Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Hi, > > >> $ grep FreeBSD.*1998 /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree > >> FreeBSD 2.2.6 1998-03-25 [FBD] > >> FreeBSD 2.2.7 1998-07-22 [FBD] > >> FreeBSD 3.0 1998-10-16 [FBD] > >> FreeBSD 2.2.8 1998-11-29 [FBD] > >> > >> :-) > > > > Just out of curiosity, what shell are you using where you don't have to > > escape * ? > > That's a regular expression. It means (expression ".*") "zero or more of > anything between FreeBSD and 1998". > > HTH, > Nejc It's also a shell meta-character in the shells I'm familiar with, and gets expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it. Hence the question about what shell the poster is using.... -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHyFi1JvkB8SevrssRAgc/AJ48RudbyvJzpVrx1yxGRMBOZwWjJgCeNLm9 FaD2YH+dAdmlOS+ORrpSP54= =mmYy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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