URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42501>
Summary: Add -E option for FreeBSD/Mac OSX compatibility
Project: findutils
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 03 Jun 2014 06:32:14 PM UTC
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Originator Name: Chris Bojarski
Originator Email: ch...@cbojar.net
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: None
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
I was working on a script recently that required cross-platform regular
expression filtering. On Linux, the -regextype posix-egrep works like a charm,
but this option is not cross-platform. On FreeBSD
<http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=find> and Mac OSX
<https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/find.1.html>,
there is a -E option that looks equivalent to -regextype posix-egrep. I was
hoping it might be possible to add a -E option that aliases to -regextype
posix-egrep so that the same functionality can be used across different
implementations.
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