Larry Jones wrote:
Derek Robert Price writes:
The expr, version 2.0.12, which happens to be distributed with RH Linux
8.0 is broken. .* is way too greedy. Here's a test case:
FWIW, the oldest 2.0.x I can find is 2.0.13 and it seems to work
correctly, so I'm guessing the bug didn't last long. RH just picked
an unfortunate version to distribute.
Actually, I can duplicate the bug on my machine with the 4.5.3 that Jim
Meyering suggested. I think the bug is in glibc 2.2.93.
twaugh@xxxxxxxxxx at RedHat tells me that expr uses the GNU regex
library. I'm looking into that now. With any luck, someone at RedHat
is looking into it too. :)
Derek
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