Re: Grep - possible bug with escaped brackets

[John.Cowan]

Ayval Ron scripsit:

> address@hidden root]# echo "try[" | grep -e "try[\[]"
> try[
> (matches)
> address@hidden root]# echo "try]" | grep -e "try[\]]"
> address@hidden root]#
> (no match)
> 
> Seems that escaping the closing bracket the should be matched does not
> work, and that it is treated the same as a non-escaped bracket.

Character classes within regular expressions do not implement \-escaping,
so [\[] matches either a \ or an [, and [\]] matches a \ followed by a ].
Traditionally, the only magic characters inside a character class were
^ (negate), ] (close), and - (range); they can be made non-magic by
making ^ non-initial, ] initial, and - either initial or final.

Note that ] outside a character class is not magic at all.

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