[plug] Grep not following my regex

[Tim]

Yet we've still not solved why egrep -o '[0-9.]*' doesn't work but
egrep -o '[0-9.]+' does!
The . shouldn't be an issue as it's in brackets. And I used egrep to
make sure * and + should work.
(Also, I wasn't bothered if it matched ...3..45.6..3 for example).

On my laptop. both work.
$ grep -V
GNU grep 2.5.3

$ egrep -o '[0-9.]*'
random 4343.34343
4343.34343

$ egrep -o '[0-9.]+'
random 4343.34343
4343.34343


On the Fedora machine, the first doesn't.

$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

$ egrep -o '[0-9.]*'
random 4343.34343

$ egrep -o '[0-9.]+'
random 4343.34343
4343.34343


Odd. Is it a bug in that grep version? (2.5.1)

Thanks

Tim

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