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[bug #4298] find -regex is either not working properly or not documented
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[bug #4298] find -regex is either not working properly or not documented properly |
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Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:00:58 -0400 |
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=================== BUG #4298: FULL BUG SNAPSHOT ===================
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=4298&group_id=61
Submitted by: ametzler Project: findutils
Submitted on: Sun 07/13/2003 at 11:00
Category: None Severity: 5 - Major
Bug Group: None Resolution: None
Assigned to: None Originator Name:
Originator Email: Status: Open
Release: None Fixed Release: None
Summary: find -regex is either not working properly or not documented properly
Original Submission:
Version: 4.1.20
Quoting from http://bugs.debian.org/162838 submitted by Thomas Themel:
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The man page for find does not document the syntax of regular expressions
supported by -regex. Since -regex is not part of the POSIX syntax, it seems to
be non-obvious which regex syntax is supported.
The man page lists the info page as a reference, and the info description of
-regex references a node '(emacs) Regexps'. The corresponding info node
describes a pretty advanced Regexp syntax which is not implemented by find.
An example:
#v+
bash-2.05b$ ls -l
-rw------- 1 themel themel 0 Sep 30 12:57 aaaa
-rw------- 1 themel themel 0 Sep 30 12:57 a{4}
bash-2.05b$ find . -regex './a{4}'
./a{4}
bash-2.05b$ find . -regex './a{4}'
./a{4}
#v-
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I've verified that this still applies to 4.1.20.
cu andreas
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