I don't see how my '*' is "unneeded", as removing it will change the
set of strings
covered (it won't match when there's no leading whitespace).
Sigh, you are not reading what I wrote, it is about ' *', not about '*'. You
are not reading technical texts like these in some silly proportional font,
right?
Let me try again: the expression ' *' (that is: space asterisk) in front of
the \/.* will match an empty string, because the expression after the \/ is
greedy.
I understood you perfectly. I am pointing out that a literal reading of the
manpage contradicts what you wrote (and thus, I assume, the reality).
--
"Political systems do not deal easily
with long term threats,
even if they have a probability of 100%"
James Schlesinger, a former director of the CIA
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