Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 15:07:20 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 95936] egrep(1) misparses multiline parenthetical grouping Message-ID: <bug-95936-8-kuSvtfg94S@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> In-Reply-To: <bug-95936-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-95936-8@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D95936 Kyle Evans <bsdports@kyle-evans.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |bsdports@kyle-evans.net --- Comment #1 from Kyle Evans <bsdports@kyle-evans.net> --- Hi (delayed response), This is actually intended behavior. It's not so much that it doesn't correc= tly see it, it's that newlines are pattern delimiters, so this is actually brok= en into two different patterns: '(', and 'hi)'. To verify, check: $ printf "hi\nthere" | egrep -o "hi er" hi er # Correct This is probably dual purpose: 1. Maintains consistency with file-read patterns (-f) 2. grep is inherently line-oriented, thus making it nonsensical to actually match on newlines. --=20 You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.=
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