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[PATCH] grep: grouping of patterns including back reference

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Message #17 received at 33249 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 33249 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33249: [PATCH] grep: grouping of patterns including back
 reference
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2018 13:25:55 +0900

On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 21:02:19 -0700
Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> > Even the pattern has no back-references, compilation by regex run for
> > each line.  So Syntax errors will be detected as even your present.
> 
> OK, but then I'm afraid I don't understand the motivation for the patch. Perhaps if you gave a self-contained example? The examples in the original bug report are incomplete because they're missing the pattern file; when I tried the first one I observed this:
> 
> $ yes 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000x | head -10 >in
> $ time -p env LC_ALL=C grep -f pat in
> grep: pat: No such file or directory
> real 0.00
> user 0.00
> sys 0.00

Sorry, It's missing.  The pattern for all cases is as following.

  $ seq -f '%040g' 0 9999 | sed '1s/$/\\(0\\)\\1/' >pat

Norihiro

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