URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56823>
Summary: -regextype egrep compatibility issue, requires full
string match as opposed to egrep
Project: findutils
Submitted by: memotype
Submitted on: Wed 28 Aug 2019 08:40:57 PM UTC
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
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Originator Email:
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Release: 4.6.0
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
$ find -version
find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0.225-235f
...
Issue: Running this
find . -regextype egrep -regex '\.ya?ml$'
finds nothing, while
find . | egrep '\.ya?ml$'
finds everything fine. Meanwhile
find . -regextype egrep -regex '.*\.ya?ml$'
works fine. I understand that *find* usually only matches the whole string,
but it seems like it is misleading/confusing/unexpected that "-regextype
egrep" isn't copy-and-paste-compatible with actual *egrep*.
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