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Date:      Sun, 26 Jun 2016 12:44:48 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: grep and anchoring
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1606261244150.84448@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <9fc6d5df-108b-5663-5a31-92ca915a9604@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20232C89-B821-41EC-9188-C2A19C679BD8@danieldk.eu> <20160626163411.d05f863e.freebsd@edvax.de> <362EE01F-4B49-4ADB-A3A6-43F852FFF87F@danieldk.eu> <9fc6d5df-108b-5663-5a31-92ca915a9604@FreeBSD.org>

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On Sun, 26 Jun 2016, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On 26/06/2016 15:44, Daniël de Kok wrote:
>> Note the anchoring (^), the pattern should only match any four characters at the beginning of the line, so the expected output is ‘1234’ and nothing more. ‘ 123' and '4 12' are not at the beginning of the line and should consequently not be printed to stdout.
>>
>> For comparison, the output of a recent GNU grep:
>>
>> —
>> %  echo "1234 1234 1234" | grep -o '^....'
>> 1234
>> —
>
> You are completely correct -- this is a bug in grep(1) on FreeBSD.  In
> all current releases including the upcoming 11.0-RELEASE grep is
> actually GNU grep version 2.1.5.  However, the same bug occurs in
> bsdgrep(1):
>
> % echo 1234 1234 1234 | bsdgrep -o '^....'
> 1234
> 123
> 4 12

Yay for compatibility! :)
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Subject: Re: freebsd-update && locally modified files
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Hi Stefan,

On 23/06/16 23:11, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> | The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have
> | been downloaded because the files have been modified locally:
> | /etc/mail/freebsd.cf
> | /etc/mail/freebsd.submit.cf
> | /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> | /etc/mail/submit.cf
> | /var/db/mergemaster.mtree
>
> The obvious solution of deleting them and letting freebsd-update install
> run did not restore those files.

On the rare occasion that happens, I tend to grab the files from a 
pristine installation and put them in place, as well as copies (with a 
.dist suffix) in case it recurs.

Greg.



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