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Date:      Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:47:02 -0400
From:      "=?utf-8?B?SmltIFByeW9y?=" <jim@jimpryor.net>
To:        "=?utf-8?B?RWl0YW4gQWRsZXI=?=" <lists@eitanadler.com>, "=?utf-8?B?SmltIFByeW9y?=" <dubiousjim@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bin/166842: bsdgrep(1) inconsistently handles ^ in non-anchoring positions
Message-ID:  <20120413014702.89EA54824AE@frontend2.nyi.mail.srv.osa>

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That's great, then it looks to be fixed in current version of bsdgrep. I didn't test against gnugrep on FreeBSD, only on Linux.

-- 
Jim Pryor

----- Reply message -----
From: "Eitan Adler" <lists@eitanadler.com>
To: "Jim Pryor" <dubiousjim@gmail.com>
Cc: "John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell" <johnandsara2@cox.net>, <freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org>
Subject: bin/166842: bsdgrep(1) inconsistently handles ^ in non-anchoring positions
Date: Thu, Apr 12, 2012 8:55 pm


Some notes:

[10010 eitan@radar ~ ]%uname -rms
FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64
[10007 eitan@radar ~ ]%bsdgrep --version
bsdgrep (BSD grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD
[10004 eitan@radar ~ ]%printf 'abc def' | bsdgrep -o '^[a-z]'
a
[10006 eitan@radar ~ ]%gnugrep --version
gnugrep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD
[10005 eitan@radar ~ ]%printf 'abc def' | gnugrep -o '^[a-z]'
a
b
c
[441 eadler1@harvey ~ ]%uname -rms
Linux 2.6.38-13-generic-pae i686
[437 eadler1@harvey ~ ]%grep --version
GNU grep 2.6.3
[439 eadler1@harvey ~ ]%printf 'abc def' | grep -o '^[a-z]'
a

-- 
Eitan Adler


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