[bug #17492] BRE with caret in the middle of pattern doesn't match

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17492>

                 Summary: BRE with caret in the middle of pattern doesn't
match
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Monday 08/21/2006 at 17:59 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

When I call
grep xx^x
it does not find lines containing "xx^x". Since the caret is not the first
character of the pattern, it should match a literal caret as opposed to the
beginning of a line (anchor).

It seems to work if you do the following:
grep .x^x

I tried grep xx^x on a solaris box and it works there.
A workaround for GNU grep seems to be
grep xx\^x







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