[bug #52592] Documentation for 'find' unclear on default regex type

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                 Summary: Documentation for 'find' unclear on default regex
type
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 05 Dec 2017 08:26:27 PM UTC
                Category: documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: None
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Details:

Section 2.1.2 Full Name Patterns [1] states under '-regex' that the default
regex dialect is "POSIX basic regular expressions", and just below, under
'-regextype' it's stated that the default is "Regular expressions compatible
with GNU Emacs".  (They differ in at least the support for '\{n,m\}' and '?')

The web documentation [2] still refers to  'posix-basic' regexes as synonym
for the undocumented 'ed', but that seems to be fixed in git.


[1]
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Full-Name-Patterns.html

[2]
https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_node/find_html/Regular-Expressions.html#Regular-Expressions





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