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Subject: [Bug 201650] (e)grep handling regexp wrong
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201650

--- Comment #2 from Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> ---
RHEL 5

-bash-3.2$ echo "abc" | grep -e "^[a-z]" -o
a
b
c
-bash-3.2$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

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RHEL 6

-bash-4.1$ echo "abc" | grep -e "^[a-z]" -o
a
-bash-4.1$ grep -V
GNU grep 2.6.3

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grep went GPLv3 at 2.5.3, so we might not be able to backport the fix. Note
that -o was a brand new feature in 2.5.1.


Perhaps we should just flip the switch and move to bsdgrep for 11-RELEASE?

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