Bug in grep?

[tido]

Is this a bug? or a lack of knowledge about regular expressions on my part:
(sorry for the long lines - but this is my environment)

==Grep Version==
> grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.5

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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

==Regex Without trailing ":"==
> echo -ne "0:0: t2 \n1000:407: t2/test1 \n1000:666: t2/test2 \n666:407: 
> t2/test3 \n666:666: t2/test4 \n" | grep -Ev 
> "^(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|13|14|16|21|25|31|32|33|35|40|60|70|81|84|85|89|200|201|202|203|204|205|206|207|405|65534|22|1000|0):(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|25|26|27|31|32|33|35|40|60|70|80|81|84|85|89|100|200|201|207|208|406|65533|65534|407|0)"
666:407: t2/test3 
666:666: t2/test4

(wrong)

==Regex With trailing ":"==
> echo -ne "0:0: t2 \n1000:407: t2/test1 \n1000:666: t2/test2 \n666:407: 
> t2/test3 \n666:666: t2/test4 \n" | grep -Ev 
> "^(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|13|14|16|21|25|31|32|33|35|40|60|70|81|84|85|89|200|201|202|203|204|205|206|207|405|65534|22|1000|0):(0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|25|26|27|31|32|33|35|40|60|70|80|81|84|85|89|100|200|201|207|208|406|65533|65534|407|0):"
1000:666: t2/test2 
666:407: t2/test3
666:666: t2/test4

(right)

i'd be interested to know if you get different results...

odiT

P.S.
Now you know my UID/GID... <grin>




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