>>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Allan> I thought, perhaps mistakenly, that grep didn't do ".*"
Allan> matching except in GNU form. Anyway as I said I didn't write
Allan> this but figured someone, maybe Lars, had a reason for using
Allan> `grep -E` in the first place.

You mean you thought grep did not do regular expressions? So, what
does the 're' stand for?

http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/g/grep.html

JMarc

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