[bug #56823] -regextype egrep compatibility issue, requires full string match as opposed to egrep

[Isaac Freeman]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?56823>

                 Summary: -regextype egrep compatibility issue, requires full
string match as opposed to egrep
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: memotype
            Submitted on: Wed 28 Aug 2019 08:40:57 PM UTC
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.6.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:


$ find -version
find (GNU findutils) 4.6.0.225-235f
...


Issue: Running this


find . -regextype egrep -regex '\.ya?ml$'


finds nothing, while


find . | egrep '\.ya?ml$'


finds everything fine. Meanwhile


find . -regextype egrep -regex '.*\.ya?ml$'


works fine. I understand that *find* usually only matches the whole string,
but it seems like it is misleading/confusing/unexpected that "-regextype
egrep" isn't copy-and-paste-compatible with actual *egrep*.




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