[bug-grep] [bug #9519] echo do^re | grep do^re; fails while grep -i do^re succeeds

[Julian Foad]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #9519 (project grep):

Clarification:

With grep v2.5.1, "echo do^re | grep do^re" finds no match, which is wrong,
and "echo do^re | grep -i do^re" finds "do^re", which is correct.

The correct behaviour is to find a match, since plain "grep" has
context-sensitive anchors: '^' is only special at the beginning of an RE or
after a special '(' or '|'.

In contrast, "egrep" has context-independent anchors, so "echo do^re | egrep
do^re" and "echo do^re | egrep -i do^re" should not find a match, and indeed
they don't.


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