Package: findutils
Version: 4.6.0+git+20170828-2
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
The repitition count doesn't work with 'find -regextype egrep'.
>From the grep man page:
Repetition
{n} The preceding item is matched exactly n times.
{n,} The preceding item is matched n or more times.
{,m} The preceding item is matched at most m times. This is a GNU extension.
{n,m} The preceding item is matched at least n times, but not more than m
times.
E.g. with egrep:
$ echo aaaaa | egrep '^a{5}$'
aaaaa
However this doesn't work with 'find -regextype egrep', e.g.:
$ touch /tmp/aaaaa; find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -regextype egrep -name 'a{5}'
The other repitition count forms (e.g. {n,}) also don't work.
Cheers,
Chris
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