Subject: Re: boxes.sh grep: Unmatched [ or [^ at egrep '[[:space]]'
From: Václav Haisman <[email-masked]>
To: Reini Urban <[email-masked]>
Cc: The Cygwin Mailing List <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:25:41 +0200
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

On Mon, 9 Aug 2010 11:05:12 +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> Jaro,
> 
> Our nice new setup found a problem in the boxes postinstall script:
> Package: boxes
> 	boxes.sh exit code 2
> Package: No package
> 	boxes.sh exit code 2
> 
> cd /etc/postinstall
> $ ./boxes.sh
> grep: Unmatched [ or [^
> 
> in grep -E '^[^#]*/|^[[:space]]*$'
/etc/preremove/boxes-manifest-from.lst
> and it is the [[:space]] part, which is broken. Per man grep it should
> work, but I don't know those specialities too well.
Should that not be '[[:space:]]'? Without the single quotes.

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