On 1/30/19 1:09 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > \s is a non-standard regex extension - glibc provides it, Cygwin has not > (at least, historically). POSIX provides [[:space:]] as a portable > alternative (although not all libc have implemented all of POSIX yet), > but is annoyingly long to type. > > Similarly, BSD regex (which is where Cygwin derives its regex from) > supports the non-standard regex extension [[:<:]] as a word boundary, > while glibc has the same feature but spelled \<. I also seem to recall > a patch in the past to teach Cygwin to respect \< by expanding it to > [[:<:]] before calling into the BSD-derived code (although I couldn't > actually find one in a quick search); a similar patch to expand \s into > [[:space:]] would be a reasonable idea.
Found it: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=winsup/cygwin/regex/regcomp.c;h=180f599c#l425 and indeed, Cygwin fakes \< and \> but NOT \s or \b (for those, you'd have to submit a patch to that spot in regcomp.c). > >> I guess this is down to compilation options at this point. > > Not so much compilation options of man and less, but rather the code > used in Cygwin itself for handling regex. Also a good read: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9792702/does-bash-support-word-boundary-regular-expressions -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3226 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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