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Summary: find "-regex" doesn't honor "bounds"
Project: findutils
Submitted by: askwar
Submitted on: Fre 06.05.2005 um 17:13
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Alexander Skwar
Originator Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Open/Closed: Open
Release: 4.2.20
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
[19:01:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/muell/finde] $ ls -la
insgesamt 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 alexander alexander 116 3. Mai 16:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 alexander alexander 4096 3. Mai 16:16 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:21 ab0{3}cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:16 ab12345cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:16 ab1234cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:16 ab123cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:18 ab9cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:19 ab_cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:20 ab.cd
-rw-r--r-- 1 alexander alexander 0 3. Mai 16:24 FOab9cd
I'm trying to find all the files in this directory whose names are starting
with "ab", ending with "cd" and have between 4 and 5 digits between them. One
way to do this, would be the following regex:
ab[0-9]{4,5}cd
So I tried:
[19:04:49 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/muell/finde] $ find . -regex
'./ab[0-9]{4,5}cd'
[19:04:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/muell/finde] $ find . -regex
'./ab[0-9]\{4,5\}cd'
[19:04:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/muell/finde] $
The find man page states, that "basic" re should be supported. If so, then
the RE is correct - testing it with grep shows, that it is indeed correct:
[19:08:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/muell/finde] $ find . | grep
'./ab[0-9]\{4,5\}cd'
./ab12345cd
./ab1234cd
Why are the bounds in the RE not honored?
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