Bug#760870: Matching ^ does not work correctly with -l/-L options

Ben Hutchings ben at decadent.org.uk
Mon Sep 8 17:55:05 UTC 2014


Package: ack-grep
Version: 2.14-1
Severity: important

ack now fails the following trivial test case.  I think this is a
regression in the new version.  Perhaps it is missing the /m
modifier somewhere?

Ben.

/home/ben$ cat test
foo
bar
/home/ben$ ack ^foo test
foo
/home/ben$ ack ^bar test
bar
/home/ben$ ack -l ^foo test
test
/home/ben$ ack -l ^bar test
/home/ben$ ack -l bar test
test
/home/ben$ 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.16-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ack-grep depends on:
ii  libfile-next-perl  1.12-1
ii  perl               5.20.0-6

ack-grep recommends no packages.

ack-grep suggests no packages.

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