Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:07:20 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 95936] egrep(1) misparses multiline parenthetical grouping Message-ID: <bug-95936-8-kuSvtfg94S@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-95936-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-95936-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=95936 Kyle Evans <bsdports@kyle-evans.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bsdports@kyle-evans.net --- Comment #1 from Kyle Evans <bsdports@kyle-evans.net> --- Hi (delayed response), This is actually intended behavior. It's not so much that it doesn't correctly see it, it's that newlines are pattern delimiters, so this is actually broken into two different patterns: '(', and 'hi)'. To verify, check: $ printf "hi\nthere" | egrep -o "hi er" hi er # Correct This is probably dual purpose: 1. Maintains consistency with file-read patterns (-f) 2. grep is inherently line-oriented, thus making it nonsensical to actually match on newlines. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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