GNU bug report logs - #19953
egrep: 'Invalid range end' - bug or not?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:30:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>
To: 19953 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19953: egrep: 'Invalid range end' - bug or not?
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:28:51 +0200

$ echo 'sample-text'|egrep '[0-9\-a-z]'
grep: Invalid range end

but:

$ echo 'sample-text'|egrep '[0-9a-z\-]'
sample-text

(grep 2.20-4.1)
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 214 days ago.

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