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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2013-04-18 12:22:12 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2013-04-18 12:22:33 -0700
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doc: document EREs like a{,10}
Problem reported by Eric Blake in <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2013-04/msg00005.html>. * NEWS: Document the bug fix. * doc/grep.in.1: Restore documentation for this feature, but mention that it is a GNU extension. * doc/grep.texi (Fundamental Structure): Mention that this feature is a GNU extension.
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@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*-
grep -E 'a{1000000000}' now reports an overflow error rather than
silently acting like grep -E 'a\{1000000000}'.
+ grep -E 'a{,10}' was not treated equivalently to grep -E 'a{0,10}'.
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** New features
The -R option now has a long-option alias --dereference-recursive.