Subject: bug#20443: grep pattern is forward slash + star

From: Clay Hansen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:05:11 -0600

Dear Coders,

if I echo 'a  *  z' | grep '/*' it succeeds and prints 'a  *  z'.
Can this be right?

echo 'a  *  z' | grep -F '/*' fails as expected.

Tested in Salix on grep-2.14 and freshly compiled grep-2.21.

Thanks,