Bug 77799
Summary: | [:upper:] [:lower:] [:digit:]...all bafflingly broken in grep | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Telsa Gwynne <hobbit> |
Component: | grep | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 8.0 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-11-13 22:37:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Telsa Gwynne
2002-11-13 20:31:20 UTC
Sigh. It's a bug in the info page... $ grep [[:upper:]] ../um ALL CAPITALS $ I honestly think this is very unclear documentation. I managed to confuse a lot of people with this one. "Finally, certain named classes of characters are predefined *within* bracket expressions" (my emphasis); there's also an example. grep [[:upper:]] um |