[bug #61304] Contradiction about default type of regular expressions

[Renaud Pacalet]

URL:
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                 Summary: Contradiction about default type of regular
expressions
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: pacalet
            Submitted on: Thu 07 Oct 2021 09:25:47 AM UTC
                Category: documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: None
         Discussion Lock: Any
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

In the documentation of findutils, section "2.1.2 Full Name Patterns", about
the '-(i)regex' test:

"There are several varieties of regular expressions; by default this test uses
POSIX basic regular expressions, but this can be changed with the option
'-regextype'."

While about the '-regextype' option:

"If this option is not given, GNU Emacs regular expressions are assumed."

Unless GNU Emacs and POSIX basic regular expressions are the same this looks
like a contradiction.




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