[bug #24732] --only-matching prints only non-overlapping matches in each line

[Jeffrey Milloy]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?24732>

                 Summary: --only-matching prints only non-overlapping matches
in each line
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: jmilloy
            Submitted on: Sun 02 Nov 2008 07:35:25 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Maybe this is more of a feature request, but as I understand the option,
--only-matching should print all matches to the pattern in each line.

for example:

$ echo 'abcd00efghi' | grep -o ..0..
cd00e

# what I expect:
# $ echo 'abcd00efghi' | grep -o ..0..
# cd00e
# d00ef

note that more than one match in a line will be printed, if they do not
overlap:

$ echo 'ab0cdefg0hi' | grep -o ..0..
ab0cd
fg0hi

Was the option meant to work this way?
Jeff




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