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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:39:13 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: find(1) -regex/-iregex
Message-ID:  <20010221093913.J6641@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <3A9337E0.A51A3E8B@newsguy.com>; from dcs@newsguy.com on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 12:37:04PM %2B0900
References:  <8666i588p4.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20010220132426.X6641@fw.wintelcom.net> <3A9337E0.A51A3E8B@newsguy.com>

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* Daniel C. Sobral <dcs@newsguy.com> [010220 19:39] wrote:
> Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > * Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org> [010220 11:19] wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have implemented -regex and -iregex options for find(1):
> > >
> > 
> > Sounds good, just make sure the regex engine matches the one that
> > the other find(1)'s use.
> 
> It won't. GNU find certainly uses GNU regexp library, which has lots of
> extra stuff. Naturally, our find will be using our library instead.
> <shrug> Nothing we can do about it. It is the way of the Gnu to extend
> and embrace.

Well a subset or superset is fine, as long as it's the same type
of regex.

-Alfred

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