[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

Update of bug #14243 (project findutils): Status:None => Works For Me Assigned to:None => jay Open/Closed:Open => Closed ___

[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

Follow-up Comment #5, bug #14243 (project findutils): > So I guess \{ \} are part of basic regular expressions? No. In basic regular expressions those would be invalid character escapes. So that is not a valid POSIX basic regular expression. Because you would not find those in a valid POSIX B

[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #14243 (project findutils): >From regex(7) (linux man pages collection http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/man/) -[cut]-- Obsolete (``basic'') regular expressions differ in several respects. `|', `+', and `?' are ordinary characters and there

[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #14243 (project findutils): Note that GNU grep uses an GNU regular expression engine which is compliant with POSIX but extents it. In particular \{ and \} are extensions. Normally those would not be valid escape sequences. Those invalid basic regular expression sequenc

Re: [bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 01:59:46PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I've attached a patch against CVS HEAD to the documentation to fix the parts > that still said, that POSIX BRE was the default behavior. Thanks, I will look at that whem I hget beck from vacation. James

[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #14243 (project findutils): I've attached a patch against CVS HEAD to the documentation to fix the parts that still said, that POSIX BRE was the default behavior. ___ Additional Item Attachment: File name: fixrege

[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #14243 (project findutils): find uses emacs-type regular expressions by default.[1] Recent releases allow selecting the prefered regex-variant by using the option -regextype. cu andreas ___ Reply to

[bug #14243] Basic regular expressions does not work

URL: Summary: Basic regular expressions does not work Project: findutils Submitted by: None Submitted on: Sun 08/21/05 at 09:29 Category: find