Re: [nmh-workers] Stupid 'pick' question...

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Valdis,

> >     -search 'Subject[ \t]:[ \t]*\[PATCH [45]\.[0-9]'
>
> [~] grep ^Subject Mail/linux-kernel/321805
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 04/20] net: Fix for_each_netdev_feature on Big endian
> [~] scan `pick +linux-kernel 321805 -search 'Subject: \[PATCH [45]\.[0-9]' 
> -and -from address@hidden -list`
> 321805      *  Thu 21Feb      7k Greg Kroah-Hartma  Re: [PATCH 4.9 04/20] 
> net: Fix for_each_netdev_feature on Big endian <<On Thu, Feb 21,
...
> There's still something busticated here.  Why did it match even with
> the Re: in there?

Your grep is looking for Search at the start of a line, your pick isn't.
The email has the original, non-Re:, subject in the email's body.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/21/975

>    A  modified  grep(1)  is used to perform the matching, so the full regular 
> expression
>    (see ed(1)) facility is available within pattern.   With  -search,  
> pattern  is  used
>    directly, and with the others, the grep pattern constructed is:

That's ugly formatting.  I find «export MANOPT='--nh --nj'» helps a lot
with the man(1) here.

> Also, saw this under 'BUG' in the pick manpage:
>
> The pattern syntax '[l-r]' is not supported; each letter to be matched
> must be included within the square brackets.

I think Paul Fox fixed that back in 2006.
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/commit/?id=dc0b0be755b41f3c195913631fedf023ad69192e

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.