Re: problem with extended regular expression in bash 4.1

[Chet Ramey]

On 11/26/12 9:07 AM, Davide Brini wrote:

>> Then maybe you have the compat31 option set (or your distro sets it for
>> you), or you may have a patched, non-vanilla version of bash (redhat is
>> well known for doing this).
>>
> 
> And indeed:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/gnu.bash.bug/hq7mAJQB31s

Redhat, Debian, and SUSE have done this kind of thing in the past.

It wouldn't be so bad, but they tend not to

1.  Change the installed manual page to document what they've done;
2.  Tell anyone they've done it

Chet


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