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Re: Sanity check please

2005-04-24 13:53:04
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:49:25PM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 4/24/05, Hossein Movahhedian <dma8hm1956(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:

No, I didn't. Because the `procmailrc' says:{{{
  expressions are completely compatible to the normal egrep(1)
                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The "normal egrep" does not mean GNU egrep, because procmail dates
from well before GNU was widely deployed.  Consequently, "normal"
means, roughly, Sun's egrep from 1990 or thereabouts.

Yup.  Hossein, this comes up every few months (sometimes more
often) on this list.  Here's one from March 2004:

http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/cgi-bin/w3glimpse2html/procmail/2004-03/msg00028.html?66#mfs

(I plugged "extended egrep" in to the search.)

I believe Nancy discusses it in her QuickStart pages, too.

-- 
dman

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