[bug #31933] Wrong results with negated -regex

[Dario Niedermann]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31933>

                 Summary: Wrong results with negated -regex
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: ndr
            Submitted on: Sun 19 Dec 2010 10:29:07 PM CET
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.31
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

The following should find all files, except those ending in .css, .png, .gif
:

<blockquote>
find . -type f -regextype posix-egrep '!' -regex '\.(css|png|gif)$'
</blockquote>

It simply finds all files instead.





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