bug#59639: closed (Is this a bug?)

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> Is this a bug?
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> Sun, 27 Nov 2022 18:29:28 +0100
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.5.0
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> Given file.txt with three lines:
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> /usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
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> /usr/local/lib/libgd2
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> grep gdk file.txt
> this results in : /usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
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> Which looks ok for me.
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> When I do:
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> grep  gdk* file.txt
> this results in : /usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2
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> This looks like then '*' eats the 'k'
> from 'gdk*' and looks for 'gd'' instead of 'gdk*'.
> Or equivalent to grep  gd* file.txt
> Or equivalent to grep  gd file.txt
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> grep   gdk.* file.txt
> this results in : /usr/local/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0
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> Which looks ok for me.
> Either now the point is eaten or the point is correctly replaced by 'any 
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> grep is grep-3.8 and linked with
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> Can you please verify if this is a bug or anything in my thinking is 
> wrong beacuse I have overlooked something?
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> Regards Klaus
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> Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:11:57 -0800
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> On 2022-11-27 09:29, Klaus Dittrich wrote:
> > grep  gdk* file.txt
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> You should quote the pattern for the shell, e.g.:
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> grep 'gdk*' file.txt
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> You can see what's going on by using the shell command 'set -x' before 
> running 'grep'.
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