Subject: 【Bug】bug report of GNU grep
From: 谢敬锋 <[email-masked]>
To: bug-grep <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 22:04:45 +0800 (CST)
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

Hi all,

Suppose the file content is as below:

abc.h

hello world

the output of grep "*.h" file and grep -E "*.h file" are different, from my understanding, they should be the same, '*' is a regular expression meta-character. the output should both be abc.h.

Please help clarifying this issue!