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Re: --only-matching interacts badly with context lines and line head [bu
From: |
Charles Levert |
Subject: |
Re: --only-matching interacts badly with context lines and line head [bug-grep] |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:43:22 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
* On Wednesday 2005-02-23 at 09:51:34 +0000, Julian Foad wrote:
> Charles Levert wrote:
> >I found another set of issues with -o/--only-matching.
>
> See my patch #3477 at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3477
> which provides tests for some of these problems. (It's about time I
> checked it in to CVS.)
My version still fails the "end of a previous match should
not match ^" test.
"grep --color" is equally affected by this.
This one will not be easy to fix, since the "^" does
not necessarily appear at the beginning of the pattern
with egrep.