Package: procmail
Version: 3.22-11
Severity: wishlist
procmailrc(5) states:
> These regular expressions are completely compatible to the normal
> egrep(1) extended regular expressions. See also Extended regular
> expressions.
However, egrep(1) lists many different forms that are not supported by
procmail (such as "{N}").
Although a long text afterwards procmailrc(5) cautions the user,
> (beware that some egrep implementations include other non-standard
> extensions) ,
I propose that "completely compatible" is substituted with "similar" in
the first paragraph (or at least that "the normal egrep(1) extended
regular expressions" is substituted with "a subset of the regular
expressions supported by egrep(1)").
This did bite me; seeing just the first paragraph, I was misled to
conclude "if it works in egrep, it will work in procmail", which is,
obviously, wrong.
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