Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:43:29 GMT From: Jim Pryor <dubiousjim@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/166862: grep [[:alnum:]]* only matches once Message-ID: <201204120043.q3C0hTex048478@red.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201204120050.q3C0oDe2084962@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 166862 >Category: bin >Synopsis: grep [[:alnum:]]* only matches once >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Apr 12 00:50:13 UTC 2012 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Jim Pryor >Release: 9.0-PRELEASE >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD vaio.jimpryor.net 9.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Nov 29 02:45:33 EST 2011 root@vaio.jimpryor.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINE amd64 >Description: This behaves as expected: $ printf '_abc d_ef 1ghi' | grep -o '[[:alnum:]_]\+' _abc d_ef 1ghi But this gives only a single match: 8:36 PM vaio pts8 .../arch/usr/share/man $ printf '_abc d_ef 1ghi' | grep -o '[[:alnum:]_]*' _abc Same results if we use egrep instead, or use "\w" instead of "[[:alnum:]_]". grep version line: /* $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/grep/grep.c,v 1.11.2.3 2011/10/20 16:08:11 gabor Exp $ >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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