bug#31705: five grep / egrep issues

2018-06-04 Thread Phillip Feldman
I would like to report the following unrelated issues: (1) `grep --help` and `egrep --help` should report the version number. (2) `egrep [abc]+ *.txt` works as expected, but if I try to do `egrep ^[abc]+ *.txt`, which anchors the pattern to the start of the line, I get no results, even though the

bug#31705: five grep / egrep issues

2018-06-04 Thread Paul Eggert
Phillip Feldman wrote: I would like to report the following unrelated issues: (1) `grep --help` and `egrep --help` should report the version number. 'grep --version' should do what you want. That behavior is specified in the GNU coding standards. (2) `egrep [abc]+ *.txt` works as expected,