Re: grep -E ? (Was: Compilation problem solved)

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello, Thomas!
> 
> > > `+' isn't a portable literal.  Some implementations seem to use it as
> > > a meta-character with the usual meaning, but without support for it
> > > after `*'.
> 
> This was about grep, not egrep. GNU grep 2.4.2 (without -E) behaves
> correctly, but the point was that some other implementations may behave
> differently.

my point: if it's a bug in GNU grep, report it and don't accommodate it
other than to document it.

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