grep and anchoring

[Daniël de Kok]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 04:31:20PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> You are completely correct -- this is a bug in grep(1) on FreeBSD.  In
> all current releases including the upcoming 11.0-RELEASE grep is
> actually GNU grep version 2.1.5.  However, the same bug occurs in
> bsdgrep(1):
> 
> % echo 1234 1234 1234 | bsdgrep -o '^....'
> 1234
>  123
> 4 12
> 
> There is already an open PR about a very similar issue:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201650

FWIW, I took some time to look at the bsdgrep issue tonight and have
attached a fix to the PR above.

With kind regards,
Daniël de Kok