From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <6f23779eaf1a84b58aa569a370e413cb@ladd.quanstro.net> References: <201107050956.18175.dexen.devries@gmail.com> <6f23779eaf1a84b58aa569a370e413cb@ladd.quanstro.net> Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 14:40:40 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] grep (or perhaps regex(6)) question Topicbox-Message-UUID: fac4990e-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> that is, p9p grep matches any line with regular expression in form of >> $ANY_REGEX >> >> why is it so? > > this is a bug. =C2=A0see 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? Thanks Ruda