title: Using the star sign in grep
body: <p>I am trying to search for the substring "abc" in a specific file in linux/bash</p>
  
  <p>So I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>grep '*abc*' myFile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It returns nothing.</p>
  
  <p>But if I do:</p>
  
  <pre><code>grep 'abc' myFile
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It returns matches correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Now, this is not a problem for me. But what if I want to grep for a more complex string, say</p>
  
  <pre><code>*abc * def *
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How would I accomplish it using grep?</p>