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grep: use square brackets to match specific characters

So I am experimenting with the power of grep using this resources The problem I am currently encountering is that it doesn't seem to work as I intended. so I have an demo.txt file that contains foo....
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Why does `grep fil*` fail?

I found echo file|grep fil* fails, but echo abcd|grep abc* succeeds. I don't understand it, can someone explain?
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