[bug #28237] strange behavior (maybe a bug, maybe not...) [needs better explanation of the problem]

[James Youngman]

Update of bug #28237 (project findutils):

                  Status:               Need Info => Invalid                
             Assigned to:                    None => jay                    

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Follow-up Comment #5:

The first sentence of the description of the egrep regular expresison type
says:

@node egrep regular expression syntax
@subsection @samp{egrep} regular expression syntax


The character @samp{.} matches any single character except newline.

Here the . just isn't matching the newline.   You might want to try
"-regextype posix-extended".

~/tmp/t$ find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*new.*' -print0 | od -c
0000000   .   /   n   e   w  n   l   i   n   e   
0000013
~/tmp/t$ find . -regextype egrep -regex '.*new.*' -print0 | od -c
0000000


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