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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#57604: [ef]grep usage -> POSIXLY_CORRECT? |
Date: | Wed, 7 Sep 2022 14:26:07 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.11.0 |
On 9/7/22 03:02, Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
$ grep '\Q' /dev/null grep: warning: stray \ before Q $ grep '[:alpha:]' /dev/null grep: character class syntax is [[:space:]], not [:space:]Is the use of diagnostic warnings like this supported by POSIX?
Yes, POSIX says that \Q produces undefined results, and that [:alpha:] can be treated as either [[:alpha:]], [:alph], or an error (the last is the GNU behavior).
I'd rather have tools exit with an error code on invalid uses rather than issuing warning messages.
GNU grep does that for [:alpha:]. At some point it should do the same for \Q, as \Q's behavior is squirrelly anyway. I thought it might be too disruptive to do it for \Q right away so in 3.8 \Q merely gets warned about.
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