[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#377844: IMHO, the RE in useradd.8 doesn't match its description.

shaulka at 012.net.il shaulka at 012.net.il
Wed Jul 12 14:59:45 UTC 2006


On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 0:04 am, Nicolas François wrote:

> The next release man page should contain:
> 
>   In regular expression terms: ^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]?$ 

  The ^ character at the very beginning (start of line) and the $ character at the end
(end of line) confused me for a while. Since we are not considering whole lines
here I wouldn't mention them.







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