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Date:      Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:00:33 +0000
From:      bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 214783] [patch] awk(1) POSIX character classes never match backslash
Message-ID:  <bug-214783-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>

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            Bug ID: 214783
           Summary: [patch] awk(1) POSIX character classes never match
                    backslash
           Product: Base System
           Version: 10.1-RELEASE
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: patch
          Severity: Affects Only Me
          Priority: ---
         Component: bin
          Assignee: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: martin@lispworks.com
          Keywords: patch

Created attachment 177332
  --> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=3D177332&action=
=3Dedit
Patch to escape chars in POSIX character classes

The commands below should print "yes" but on FreeBSD they print nothing:

echo '\' | awk '/[[:print:]]/ { print "yes" }'

The attached patch fixes this (and also a theoretical problem with matching
hyphen).

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