Re: [bug-grep] Re: grep: -i option not working i cronjobs

[Elliott Hughes]

On Nov 14, 2004, at 12:29, Aharon Robbins wrote:
> From: Elliott Hughes <address@hidden>
> > (reads GNU awk user's guide.) ah, i see. i didn't know about that. i'm
> > not sure i ever used GNU awk. i thought he meant support for Perl-like
> > "(?i)" in regular expressions.
>
> Nope.  I tend to doubt that perl-style RE's and regular old boring 
> POSIX
> style RE's should mix.  But maybe I'm just too conservative.

if i were benevolent dictator, all regular expressions would be Java's 
subset of Perl regular expressions (that is, no inline Perl). it sucks 
having to remember that -- in addition to shell globs -- there are at 
least three similar but different syntaxes (basic, extended, and Perl), 
all of which are in use by programs i come into daily contact with.

apart from --color, a desire to compile in support for -P is one of the 
reasons i first built grep from source.

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