[31116] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Sun Sep 10 20:49:05 2000
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:44:35 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@MHSC.com>, batz <batsy@vapour.net>,
nanog@merit.edu
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Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
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In-Reply-To: <200009101203.VAA04846@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>; from mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp on Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:03:23PM +0859
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On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 09:03:23PM +0859, Masataka Ohta wrote:
>
>> > > I'm assuming you're being facetious.
>> >
>> > I* (including but not limited to "I" and "IPv6") are facetious,
>> > of course.
>>
>> ??? please clarify ...
>
>A '*' character in a regular expression matches anything including
>a null string, in this case, "", "Pv6" and maybe more.
A '*' character in a regular expression makes the preceding item match
zero or more times including a null string, in this case, "I".
A '*' character in a *shell glob* will match anything including a null
string, in this case , "", "Pv6" and maybe more.
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