From: Rudolf Sykora <rudolf.sykora@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] grep (or perhaps regex(6)) question
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:56:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTin8TsTFn6Jt+XN=iz3vvdtfqbAfNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201107050956.18175.dexen.devries@gmail.com>
> that is, p9p grep matches any line with regular expression in form of
> $ANY_REGEX
>
> why is it so?
Why (the very mechanism) is one question. Whether it should or should
not be so is another. Is this subtlety important? (I.e. can't it be
implementation dependent as the correct behaviour seems undefined [to
me]?)
Thanks
Ruda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-05 11:56 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 [this message]
2011-07-05 12:13 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-05 12:40 ` Rudolf Sykora
2011-07-05 12:58 ` erik quanstrom
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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