Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 15:10:57 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dani=C3=ABl_de_Kok?= <me@danieldk.eu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: grep and anchoring Message-ID: <20232C89-B821-41EC-9188-C2A19C679BD8@danieldk.eu>
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Dear all, After a BSD hiatus of many years, I am tinkering with FreeBSD again. I’ve run into some strange issue with grep and beginning of line (^) anchoring: — % echo "1234 1234 1234" | egrep -o '^….' 1234 123 4 12 % echo "123412341234" | egrep -o '^....' 1234 1234 1234 — Any idea what is going on here? (Recent GNU grep from ports gives the expected output.) With kind regards, Daniël de Kok Ps., grep on OS X, which seems to be the same version has similar problems…
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