Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.bugs.usg Subject: Re: Bug in regex(3)? (and bug in sh(1)) Message-ID: <527@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 12:15:32 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.527 Posted: Thu Feb 28 12:15:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 03:13:42 EST References: <104@cfib.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 16 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:12225 net.bugs.usg:184 > Has anybody had trouble with regcmp(3)/regex(3)? I seem to have found a bug > in handling expressions with breakout strings - regex corrupts the subject > string pointed to by the second arg. I tried it on our VAX with the System V version of "regex", and it worked OK. However, I did discover an amusing shell bug by accident; I mistyped "sh -x stuff.sh >>stuff" (a test script) as "sh .x stuff.sh >>stuff", and got : : cannot open and got ".x.x" at the end of "stuff". Looks like it's confused about what should be written to standard output and standard error... Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy