On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:23:15AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > pfgshield-freebsd_at_yahoo.com wrote: > >On 2008-06-17, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: > >>>egrep: empty (sub)expression > >>> > >>I've looked at this and I have a patch with a workaround: > >>http://kovesdan.org/patches/grep.dougb.diff > > > >This general behavior should be considered a GNUism, the type of > >thing that we want to avoid in scripts. Perhaps, if it's too > >common, the workaround should be ifdef'd into a GNU compatible mode > >or something. > > No, "here is a new bsd grep, but change all your scripts that have > relied on legitimate behavior of grep in the past" is a non-starter. I > haven't checked POSIX to see whether the particular construction I am > using fits the spec or not, but I really don't care. We need to be > feature-compatible with the GNU versions of these tools, both for > legacy scripts and also for those users migrating over from linux. > FWIW, your RE violates strict conformance to Posix when the variable is unset. See 9.4.3 and 2.2.1 in SuSv3. -- SteveReceived on Wed Jun 18 2008 - 17:10:14 UTC
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