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BUG: standard & extended RE's don't find NUL's :-(

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Message #32 received at 20638 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Linda Walsh <gnu <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 20638 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bug#20638: BUG: standard & extended RE's don't find NUL's :-(
Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 18:29:34 -0700

>  From the coreutils-5.97 info page:

Like I said, we're talking about grep, so you need to look at the grep manual. 
grep is not part of coreutils, so you're barking up the wrong tree again.

> It *used* to be compatible with 'awk's regex

No, that's never been true.  It wasn't true even back in the late 1970s, when I 
first used grep and awk.  If you want to blame someone, blame the Bell Labs 
hackers who wrote them in the first place.

> no tinfoil hat -- just a good memory, something you might find useful to
> work on!  ;-)

In this particular case I'm afraid your memory has played tricks on you.

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