From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 29 19:10:50 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01777106571B for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:10:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from conn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (conn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87178FC12 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:10:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by conn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B81879A6; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:10:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from [192.168.2.4] (ip68-0-250-6.ri.ri.cox.net [68.0.250.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF1FA6DA01A; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:10:48 -0600 (CST) From: Josh Paetzel To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:10:37 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080228182457.0f773080.bsd-unix@embarqmail.com> <200802291324.41438.josh@tcbug.org> <47C85417.7020308@skoberne.net> In-Reply-To: <47C85417.7020308@skoberne.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1269025.hrx83BUc5Q"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200802291410.45509.josh@tcbug.org> Cc: Nejc =?utf-8?q?=C5=A0koberne?= Subject: Re: WooHoo! 10 years of FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:10:50 -0000 --nextPart1269025.hrx83BUc5Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 29 February 2008 01:51:03 pm Nejc =A9koberne 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= =20 expanded long before grep would ever see it unless you escape it. Hence th= e=20 question about what shell the poster is using.... =2D-=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5A8C 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB --nextPart1269025.hrx83BUc5Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBHyFi1JvkB8SevrssRAgc/AJ48RudbyvJzpVrx1yxGRMBOZwWjJgCeNLm9 FaD2YH+dAdmlOS+ORrpSP54= =mmYy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1269025.hrx83BUc5Q--