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0 pointsswiftcoder6mo ago0 comments

Don't you have to ship the BSD-compatible versions of grep et al?

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pxc6mo ago

I'm not sure why you would. I don't think POSIX generally specifies the behavior of command line tools in such a level of detail. FWIW, the regex type used by default by GNU Grep is already POSIX's Basic Regular Expressions. (It also supports POSIX Extended Regular Expressions and PCRE2.)

Afaik, EulerOS and other Unix-certified Linux distros just ship the usual GNU userland.

mdasen6mo ago

The Single UNIX Specification does specify the behavior of many command line tools like ed, grep, awk, etc. OpenBSD sometimes notes where their tools vary from the UNIX spec. It's usually very small ways that don't matter to most people, but it does put them outside of the UNIX spec.

swiftcoderOP6mo ago

POSIX != Unix. Unix certification does require POSIX, but it also comes with a bunch more stringent requirements

pxc6mo ago

My mistake! Thanks for informing me :)

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pxc6mo ago

Afaik, EulerOS and other Unix-certified Linux distros just ship the usual GNU userland.

mdasen6mo ago

swiftcoderOP6mo ago

POSIX != Unix. Unix certification does require POSIX, but it also comes with a bunch more stringent requirements

pxc6mo ago

My mistake! Thanks for informing me :)

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