Dear Person, I have found a bug in the below environment and using grep along with REGEX.
*My aim*: To search a names having "Mr.*" and "Mrs.*" in f1.dat file $ cat /etc/*-release Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Carthage) Oracle Linux Server release 5.8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga) *$ cat f1.dat* *Output:* MRavi Mr.Kumar Mrs.Linda Mrs.Lily Mr.Gul Mr.Tent Mrs.Forrest Mr.Hammer *$ grep -r "Mr.*" f1.dat* *Output:* Mr.Kumar Mrs.Linda Mrs.Lily Mr.Gul Mr.Tent Mrs.Forrest Mr.Hammer *$ grep -r "Mrs.*" f1.dat* *Output:* Mrs.Linda Mrs.Lily Mrs.Forrest I see the command (*$ grep -r "Mr.*" f1.dat*) is getting retrieved all names having both *Mr. and Mrs.* please do let me know is this defect ? Hoping to get an revert mail on this. -- * Thanks & Regards,KK Senthil Kumar*
