On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Frédéric Brière wrote: > Package: procmail > Version: 3.22-22 > Severity: normal > > I'm not sure whether this should be considered a documentation error or > an actual bug, but according to the procmailrc(5) manpage: > > These regular expressions are *completely* compatible to the normal > egrep(1) extended regular expressions. > > Yet, I could not get named character classes like [[:digit:]] to match > instead of [0-9], while egrep(1) handles them just fine. > > (I wouldn't have been so surprised, were it not for the emphasis in the > manpage statement. <g>)
This is indeed one of those places where the manual is not accurate enough, and in fact, I believe this issue has been reported before. As the program is not very likely to change at this point, I will try to fix the manpage to be closer to reality. Thanks for the report. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
