Package: grep Version: 2.5.1.ds1-4 Severity: normal The following commands should return the same, but the first two do not work as expected.
$ echo "baab" | grep -o "a*"
$ echo "baab" | grep -o "a\{0,2\}"
$ echo "baab" | grep -o "a\{1,2\}"
aa
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (600, 'unstable'), (570, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages grep depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
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