Why does this BSD grep result differ from GNU grep?
Decade Moon
My computer is running macOS 10.12.3 and I am using the system-installed grep utility with version 2.5.1-FreeBSD.
These are the outputs I get when testing various regexes:
But if I run these using GNU grep (version 2.25) I get the following:
GNU's grep looks correct to me and BSD's is incorrect, no? Why do they differ? I don't understand why BSD's grep is matching the "a" when the regex specifies that it must follow the beginning of the line.
Decade Moon
I think this might be a bug in FreeBSD's grep. There's a bug report with similar issues.
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