Re: Allan: follow up on build problems for Solaris

[Allan Rae]

On 15 Jan 2001, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> >>>>> "Allan" == Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >>  What's wrong with grep '_(".*")' ...
>
> Allan> Aren't regular expressions like above a GNU extension for grep.
> Allan> That's why I asked about egrep which I think (hope) is
> Allan> "standard". You gotta love Unix, there are so many standards to
> Allan> choose from.
>
> What part of the regexp is an extension according to you? The use of
> parenthesis?

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

Just change it then and if someone screams we'll know better next time ;-)

Allan. (ARRae)