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bad handling of + metachar in grep


From: Adolf Mathias
Subject: bad handling of + metachar in grep
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:01:23 +0000

$ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

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$ echo a | grep -o 'a+'
$ echo 'a+' | grep -o 'a+'
a+
$


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