URL:
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Summary: Missing support for \(?: (which is part of Emacs
regular expressions)
Group: findutils
Submitter: sbaugh
Submitted: Wed 22 May 2024 08:08:22 PM UTC
Category: find
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Wrong result
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
Release: None
Discussion Lock: Any
Fixed Release: None
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Date: Wed 22 May 2024 08:08:22 PM UTC By: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh>
In Emacs regular expressions, \(?: \) defines a shy (non-capturing) group.
The find documentation says that -regex supports the Emacs regular expression
syntax, so it should support that.
In find, this syntax should be equivalent to \( \). Supporting both syntaxes
just allows regular expressions to be portable between Emacs and find, and
allows Emacs utilities like rx or regexp-opt to be used to generate regexps
for find.
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