[bug #17264] In grep -P patterns s will match a newline

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                 Summary: In grep -P patterns \s will match a newline
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wednesday 08/02/2006 at 06:33 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

$ cat foo
foo 1

foo 2
$ grep -P '^\s+foo' foo

foo 2
$ grep -P '^[[:space:]]+foo' foo

foo 2
$ grep '^[[:space:]]+foo' foo
$ 

In -P mode, ^\s or ^[[:space:]] matches the blank line before 'foo 2'.







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