GNU bug report logs - #22535
REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I)

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Aaron Davies <adavies42 <at> me.com>

Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 19:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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From: Aaron Davies <adavies42 <at> me.com>
To: bug-diffutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: REQ: regex dialect switching (for -F and -I)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 14:07:34 -0500

It would be nice to be able to use other regex dialects in -F and -I (i.e. ones where you don't have to escape pipes and parens). Possibly some code can be borrowed from find(1)'s -regextype switch?

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