Re: plus sign appears not to work as expected

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 11 February 2012 12:50:56 Bill Gradwohl wrote:
> I had hoped to find a help list because this may be my problem, but here
> goes:
> 
> grep --color '^[[:alpha:]]*' xxx
> Lists every line including blank lines, highlighting leading alpha strings.
> 
> grep --color '^[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]]*' xxx
> Lists every line starting with an alpha and highlights all leading alphas.
> This is what I wanted, so I tried rewriting the spec as:
> 
> grep --color '^[[:alpha:]]+' xxx
> lists nothing.
> 
> Is it me or is this a bug?

please post:
 - the output of `grep --version`
 - the output of `locale`
 - an example "xxx" file
-mike

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