On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, AndrC)s wrote:
> egrep shouldn't find anything, you are searching for the string "" in
> "some text here", clearly, it isn't there.
Nah, an empty search pattern should match any line, as defined by SU
and the man page. The only problem is if the -x option takes
precendence or not. SU does not say a word about that.
If anybody has access to a Solaris machine, I like to know what the
test does there.
-Otto
>
> On 9/7/06, Martin Marusak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > OpenBSD egrep finds nothing in any text:
> > ---
> > % echo "some text here" | egrep -x "" ; echo $status
> > some text here
> > 0
> > ---
> >
> > GNU grep does not:
> > ---
> > % echo "some text here" | gegrep -x "" ; echo $status
> > 1
> > ---
> > Isn't that a bug in OpenBSD egrep?
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> AndrC)s Delfino
