On Wed Oct 16 10:49:16 1996, Alan K. Stebbens wrote:
What's the difference between using .* and * ??
'*' means "zero or more occurances of the previous pattern.
'.' means an arbitrary character.
'.*' means an arbitrary string of characters, including none.
So, "-.*" means a dash followed by an arbitrary string.
While "-*" means one or more dashes.
No, "-*" means zero or more dashes. I'm sure this is just a typo.
One or more dashes is usually written as "--*".
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