Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:46:14 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 223556] apropos(1) should use regular expression by default for a keyword search Message-ID: <bug-223556-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D223556 Bug ID: 223556 Summary: apropos(1) should use regular expression by default for a keyword search Product: Base System Version: CURRENT Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Only Me Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: wosch@FreeBSD.org apropos does a keyword search. In the past the keyword was a regular expres= sion On FreeBSD 10 you can run: # search for 'f.*bar'=20 $ apropos 'f.*bar' | wc -l 4 # or dump the database apropos '.' | wc -l 5582 On FreeBSD12-current $ apropos 'f.*bar' | wc -l apropos: nothing appropriate 0 $ apropos '.' | wc -l 318 To use regular expression, you need to prefix the tilde now: $ apropos '~f.*bar' | wc -l 2 apropos '~.' | wc -l 4488 I do not like this change. We are incompatible with anything before in Free= BSD, and we are incompatible with the gnu tools on debian/ubuntu/centos. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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