[Bug 166842] grep(1) inconsistently handles ^ in non-anchoring positions

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166842

Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|bsdgrep(1) inconsistently   |grep(1) inconsistently
                   |handles ^ in non-anchoring  |handles ^ in non-anchoring
                   |positions                   |positions

--- Comment #4 from Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> ---
It looks like at least some of these issues are reproducible with the GNU grep
in FreeBSD 10 - for example:

% grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1-FreeBSD

Copyright 1988, 1992-1999, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% printf abc | grep -o '^[a-c]'                  
a
b
c

I was not able to reproduce any of the failures with bsdgrep in FreeBSD 10. I
have updated the title to refer to non-BSD grep.

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