Why “\b” doesn't work in the regex pattern of find?
Question
I'm using the find command in Mac OS X 10.9, I tried commands like this:
$ touch "a gre a"
$ find -E . -iregex ".*\bgre\b.*"
It looks that the find will not return this file named a gre a .. Does anyone have ideas about this? Thanks!
1 answers
solution1
3 ACCPTED 2013-11-13 07:49:34
find command's regex engine (ERE) doesn't support \\b for word boundaries.
On OSX following will work for word boundaries:
find -E . -iregex ".*[[:<:]]gre[[:>:]].*"
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