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Old 12-20-2012
File globbing questions
hi guys,
jus some file globbing questions

Code:
sed "s/^.*on//"

what does the full stop and asterisk means?
i onli know that ^ means inverse or not
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Old 12-20-2012
^ in this context means "at the start of the line".

.* is nothing to do with "globbing". It's regular-expression speak for match any character (.) any number of times (*), meaning "match zero or more of any character" (i.e. match anything).

The regular expression you post will remove everything up to and including the letters "on". The ^ is superfluous in this expression.
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