Setting GREP_OPTIONS="" seems to have fixed the problem. The grep
manual warns that '--perl-regexp' is experimental, so this might not
be a problem with apt-file after all.
It might also be worth noting that grep is aliased to "grep
--color=auto" on one user account.
% which zgrep
/bin/zgrep
% ls -l /bin/zgrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5597 Jan 20 2010 /bin/zgrep
% which grep
/bin/grep
% ls -l /bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 119288 Apr 21 2010 /bin/grep
% echo $POSIXLY_CORRECT
% echo $GREP_OPTIONS
--perl-regexp
% apt-cache policy gzip
gzip:
Installed: 1.3.12-9
Candidate: 1.3.12-9
Version table:
*** 1.3.12-9 0
990 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
% apt-cache policy grep
grep:
Installed: 2.6.3-3
Candidate: 2.6.3-3
Version table:
*** 2.6.3-3 0
990 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sid/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Stefan Fritsch <s...@sfritsch.de> wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2011, you wrote:
>> Running `apt-file search 'pattern'` simply prints
>> grep: conflicting matchers specified
>> grep: conflicting matchers specified
>> grep: conflicting matchers specified
>> grep: conflicting matchers specified
>> grep: conflicting matchers specified
>>
>> with every pattern I've tried. I have tried running the script as
>> different users, in different shells (bash and zsh), and with
>> different Perl versions (5.10,1 and 5.12.3).
>>
>> However, when the '--regexp' option is given, this error does not
>> occur and the program behaves normally. The verbose output (below)
>> suggests that the problem is with zfgrep in the do_grep
>> subroutine.
>
> Can you please provide the output of
>
> which zgrep
> ls -l $(which zgrep)
> which grep
> ls -l $(which grep)
> echo $POSIXLY_CORRECT
> echo $GREP_OPTIONS
>
> from the same shell where you call apt-file? Which versions of gzip
> and grep do you have installed?
>
> Thanks.
>
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