Subject: Re: find(1) with extended regexps
To: Daniel de Kok <danieldk@pobox.com>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 07/18/2007 12:17:15
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 03:07:09PM +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote:
  | Any objections to committing the attached patch for adding the '-E'
  | option to find(1) to interpret regexps as extended regexps like grep
  | and sed do? FreeBSD also seems to provide this functionality, and
  | it is pretty handy, without having many downsides.

The idea in principle sounds good to me.

You should remove REG_BASIC from the argument list given to c_regex_common()
by various functions that call it.

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