Subject: bug#20638: BUG: standard & extended RE's don't find NUL's :-(

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 15:58:48 -0700

Linda Walsh wrote:

> Perhaps you want to tell me where the documentation on the
> standard and/or extended RE's is that you use?

We're talking about grep, so the relevant documentation is the grep manual, not 
the awk manual or other random stuff you might find on the Internet.  Type 'info 
grep'.  Or if you're in Emacs, type 'C-h i m grep RET'.

>     I have good reasons -- not conspiracy, but capitalistic reasons for
> what I say

Whether you do or not, they're irrelevant to this discussion and to be honest 
that tinfoil-hat stuff isn't helping your case.