From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 20:00:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855D716A4E8 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:00:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62BB343D2D for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:00:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i9DK0px1052412 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:00:51 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i9DK0o3O052401; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:00:50 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:00:50 GMT Message-Id: <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.org From: Jens Schweikhardt Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs) X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jens Schweikhardt List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:00:51 -0000 The following reply was made to PR standards/54410; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jens Schweikhardt To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs) Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 21:57:29 +0200 Upon further investigation, awk appears only to be missing the {} ERE operator in its variations. Other ERE operators like + and | work as expected. I've sent a bug report to bwk asking if he wants to fix it or would be happy with a patch. Jens