Subject: Re: bug#59639: Is this a bug?

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:11:57 -0800

On 2022-11-27 09:29, Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> grep  gdk* file.txt

You should quote the pattern for the shell, e.g.:

grep 'gdk*' file.txt

You can see what's going on by using the shell command 'set -x' before 
running 'grep'.