On 12/7/2013 3:33 PM, Peter Cordes wrote:
I agree your complaint seems valid, but it's the behaviour of the
regex engine built into GNU libc (in this case). Bash on other
platforms would use the regex engine in their system libc. (Unless
I'm mistaken in my assumption that bash doesn't have i
On 12/10/2013 01:28 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>
> An option:
>
> shopt -s regex=(basic|[extended]|pcre)
> where 'extended' is the default would be a
> great extension.
But before bash takes on another library, it would be nicer to FIRST get
libc patched to provide pcre regex by default. In other
On 12/10/2013 12:44 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
Grep uses a third-party library (libpcre) to provide it's third syntax;
if that library is not present at compilation, then you can't use that
flavor. So maybe bash could look into using libpcre as well. But my
personal problem with libpcre is that it
Some of my scripts use command substitution, and now I see that there
are lots of files like these in /tmp:
prw--- 1 yuri wheel 0 Dec 10 13:32 sh-np-1386738492
-rw-r--r-- 1 yuri wheel3278909 Dec 10 14:54 sh-np-1386721176
Besides the obvious question why they aren't delet
