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five grep / egrep issues

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31705: closed (five grep / egrep issues)
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2020 07:45:02 +0000

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Your message dated Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:44:26 -0800
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regarding five grep / egrep issues
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From: Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: five grep / egrep issues
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 20:48:31 -0700

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I would like to report the following unrelated issues:

(1) `grep --help` and `egrep --help` should report the version number.

(2) `egrep [abc]+ *.txt` works as expected, but if I try to do `egrep
^[abc]+ *.txt`, which anchors the pattern to the start of the line, I get
no results,
even though there are lines that match the pattern.

(3) Specifying a pattern for FILE seems to work just fine unless one does a
recursive search.

(4) If one attempts to do a recursive search and omits the starting
directory, it would be helpful if the default were the current working
directory. An
alternative would be to generate a warning or error message. Simply failing
to produce any results is a bad design.

(5) If one provides an invalid regex, e.g., something like '*xyz' (a regex
can't begin with '*'), one should get a fatal error (grep and egrep accept
such a
regex without complaint, and simply return no results).

Phillip M. Feldman

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 31705-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31705: five grep / egrep issues
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:44:26 -0800

No further comment for over a year, so closing the bug report.

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