>In article <199604171251.OAA17329@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de> andrew@wipux2.w
ifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) writes:
>><root@wipux2:~> grep -v [a-z] /etc/passwd
>>tftp:*:113:32766:Trivial Ftp:/:/dev/null
>><root@wipux2:~>

>>Why is grep outputting the 'tftp' line ?
>>Cheerio

>[a-z] gets expanded by the shell to a file in the current working directory
>with a single lower case letter filename. 

To clarify this for yourself, replace the "grep -v" in that line with
echo:

	echo [a-z] /etc/passwd

Make sure you're in the same directory as you where when you grepped.

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