[Bug 268099] egrep empty string issue

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Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:00:09 UTC

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=268099

Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|New                         |Closed
           Assignee|ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org      |fernape@FreeBSD.org
         Resolution|---                         |Not A Bug
                 CC|                            |fernape@FreeBSD.org

--- Comment #1 from Fernando Apesteguía <fernape@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to mail from comment #0)

Hi Ruben,

This is not a bug but how BSD grep works. In this regard it is different from
GNU grep. In order to "fix" this, you can either remove the last "|" from the
expression or install and use the GNU grep version from textproc/gnugrep.

Cheers.

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