Re: colors too much when pattern is dot

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Mikel Ward wrote:
> With GREP_COLOR enabled, grep --color=auto colors the entire line when
> the pattern is "." or "^.".
>
> It's not a big problem, and maybe my understanding is wrong, but I
> would expect the . to match only the first character, and hence only
> the first character should be colored.

that isnt how grep works.  grep isnt line based like sed, so grepping for "." 
should match every character.

grepping for "^." however should only match the first character, but that 
seems to be fixed with 2.5.3, so ...
-mike

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