[bug #4298] find -regex is either not working properly or not documented properly

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http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=4298&group_id=61

Submitted by: ametzler                Project: findutils                    
Submitted on: Sun 07/13/2003 at 11:00
Category:  None                       Severity:  5 - Major                  
Bug Group:  None                      Resolution:  None                     
Assigned to:  None                    Originator Name:                      
Originator Email:                     Status:  Open                         
Release:  None                        Fixed Release:  None                  

Summary:  find -regex is either not working properly or not documented properly

Original Submission:  
Version: 4.1.20

Quoting from http://bugs.debian.org/162838 submitted by Thomas Themel:
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The man page for find does not document the syntax of regular expressions 
supported by -regex. Since -regex is not part of the POSIX syntax, it seems to 
be non-obvious which regex syntax is supported.

The man page lists the info page as a reference, and the info description of 
-regex references a node '(emacs) Regexps'. The corresponding info node 
describes a pretty advanced Regexp syntax which is not implemented by find.

An example:

#v+
bash-2.05b$ ls -l
-rw-------    1 themel   themel          0 Sep 30 12:57 aaaa
-rw-------    1 themel   themel          0 Sep 30 12:57 a{4}
bash-2.05b$ find . -regex './a{4}'
./a{4}
bash-2.05b$ find . -regex './a{4}'
./a{4}
#v-
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I've verified that this still applies to 4.1.20.
             cu andreas



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