From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] grep (or perhaps regex(6)) question
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 08:58:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7e1b88d2eda348d9ea703e50b378a2e8@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikBFoBR2kAa1Pcj6abBDtB7zZm+LA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue Jul 5 08:42:16 EDT 2011, rudolf.sykora@gmail.com wrote:
> >> that is, p9p grep matches any line with regular expression in form of
> >> $ANY_REGEX
> >>
> >> why is it so?
> >
> > this is a bug. see the grammar in regexp(6).
> > plan 9 grep does not have this problem.
> >
> > - erik
>
> I am sorry, but I don't understand.
> What do you mean is wrong, Erik?
there should be no match to the re $junk.
it's impossible for there to be text after then
end of line. plan 9 does this correctly,
my version of p9p (which may differ by
being out-of-date) does not.
- erik
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-05 7:56 dexen deVries
2011-07-05 11:56 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-07-05 12:13 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-05 12:40 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-07-05 12:58 ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2011-07-05 14:01 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-07-05 14:06 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-11 0:08 ` Russ Cox
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