On 10/16/21 1:58 AM, Carlo Arenas wrote:
without the patch, the error isn't correct either:
$ grep -P '[
a]'
grep: the -P option only supports a single pattern
I don't offhand see what's wrong with the diagnostic, as the PATTERNS
operand is documented to be one that "contains one or more pa
On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 12:50 AM Paul Eggert wrote:
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> On 10/16/21 12:00 AM, Carlo Arenas wrote:
> > With this patch, multiple expressions (from -e or -f) are now
> > acceptable with -P for easier side by side comparison with the other
> > supported engines.
>
> Surely this mishandles shell comma
On 10/16/21 12:00 AM, Carlo Arenas wrote:
With this patch, multiple expressions (from -e or -f) are now
acceptable with -P for easier side by side comparison with the other
supported engines.
Surely this mishandles shell commands like this one:
grep -P '[
a]'
which should be an error, but wit
With this patch, multiple expressions (from -e or -f) are now
acceptable with -P for easier side by side comparison with the other
supported engines.
Alternatively, multiple expressions could be compiled and run
sequentially for matching, but I suspect the added compilation time is
likely higher,
