Re: Bug of grep -E

Bob Proulx <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Dec 2017 11:31:52 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
iPack wrote:
> [urain39@urain39-pc ~]$ cat test | grep -Eo '[0-9a-f]{32}/[0-9A-Za-z\-%_\.]+'
> a4ff5caad2fa35faa2271df9badacd35/Konachan.com%20
> 
> It is bug ? or just my syntax error ?

Recent versions of grep (at least on my Debian system) report this as
an invalid expression for the reasons already noted by others.  Here
using your verbatim pattern (with the invalid \- \. escaping):

  $ grep -Eo '[0-9a-f]{32}/[0-9A-Za-z\-%_\.]+' /dev/null
  grep: Invalid range end

Updating would add this improved validation reporting capability. :-)

Bob