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Summary: Documentation for 'find' unclear on default regex
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Project: findutils
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tue 05 Dec 2017 08:26:27 PM UTC
Category: documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
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Details:
Section 2.1.2 Full Name Patterns [1] states under '-regex' that the default
regex dialect is "POSIX basic regular expressions", and just below, under
'-regextype' it's stated that the default is "Regular expressions compatible
with GNU Emacs". (They differ in at least the support for '\{n,m\}' and '?')
The web documentation [2] still refers to 'posix-basic' regexes as synonym
for the undocumented 'ed', but that seems to be fixed in git.
[1]
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Full-Name-Patterns.html
[2]
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Regular-Expressions.html#Regular-Expressions
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