I was lead to believe this syntax should be supported by: - Info:Grep:Regular Expressions - regexp(5) on SunOS
On the other hand, none of these mention the word anchoring syntax:
- regex(3) on Debian
- regex(7) on Debian
- grep(1) on Debian
- POSIX standard <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap09.html#tag_09_04>
So it seems that \< and \> are not part of the POSIX.2 specification.
There is, however, a consistency problem: grep supports \< and \> egrep support \< but not \>
A clean build from pristine sources suggests that Debian's behavior is consistent with upstream, so it's probably only PCRE that removes this anomaly.
I'd still like to see this resolved, but the maintainer should handle this bug as he desires. Maybe this should be reported upstream instead.
Hopefully my previous message has set the priority to minor.
-- Mike
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