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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Problem with sed wildcard "*" Post 302739135 by mukulverma2408 on Monday 3rd of December 2012 03:14:27 PM
Old 12-03-2012
Problem with sed wildcard "*"

Hi All,
can you help me with "*" wildcard character in sed, i am a bit confused. I am going through a reference and found that below code
Code:
sed -n '/a*c/' file

will also return a line that contain the string
Code:
output :
close the window properly

how is that possible when there is no "a" in this string?? how does this wildcard works.
Any reference/suggestion would be appreciated.
 

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