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Summary: Documentation for 'find' unclear on default regex type Project: findutils Submitted by: None Submitted on: Tue 05 Dec 2017 08:26:27 PM UTC Category: documentation Severity: 3 - Normal Item Group: None Status: None Privacy: Public Assigned to: None Originator Name: Originator Email: itvi...@iki.fi Open/Closed: Open Discussion Lock: Any Release: None Fixed Release: None _______________________________________________________ Details: Section 2.1.2 Full Name Patterns [1] states under '-regex' that the default regex dialect is "POSIX basic regular expressions", and just below, under '-regextype' it's stated that the default is "Regular expressions compatible with GNU Emacs". (They differ in at least the support for '\{n,m\}' and '?') The web documentation [2] still refers to 'posix-basic' regexes as synonym for the undocumented 'ed', but that seems to be fixed in git. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Full-Name-Patterns.html [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Regular-Expressions.html#Regular-Expressions _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?52592> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/