Package: findutils Version: 4.6.0+git+20170828-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
The repitition count doesn't work with 'find -regextype egrep'. >From the grep man page: Repetition {n} The preceding item is matched exactly n times. {n,} The preceding item is matched n or more times. {,m} The preceding item is matched at most m times. This is a GNU extension. {n,m} The preceding item is matched at least n times, but not more than m times. E.g. with egrep: $ echo aaaaa | egrep '^a{5}$' aaaaa However this doesn't work with 'find -regextype egrep', e.g.: $ touch /tmp/aaaaa; find /tmp -maxdepth 1 -regextype egrep -name 'a{5}' The other repitition count forms (e.g. {n,}) also don't work. Cheers, Chris -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers bionic-updates APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500, 'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages findutils depends on: ii libc6 2.27-3ubuntu1 ii libselinux1 2.7-2build2 findutils recommends no packages. Versions of packages findutils suggests: ii mlocate 0.26-2ubuntu3.1 -- no debconf information