Bug 180381 - pgrep(1): Cannot compile regular expression 'clang++'
Summary: pgrep(1): Cannot compile regular expression 'clang++'
Status: Closed Not A Bug
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 9.1-STABLE
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2013-07-08 13:00 UTC by Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak
Modified: 2019-09-17 11:57 UTC (History)
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Description Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2013-07-08 13:00:00 UTC 
The 'pgrep' is not able to find processes with '+' in name, is that desired behaviur?

% pgrep clang++
pgrep: Cannot compile regular expression `clang++' (repetition-operator operand invalid)

Regards,
vermaden

How-To-Repeat: % pgrep clang++
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-07-15 16:48:06 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-amd64->freebsd-bugs

reclassify.
Comment 2 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:46 UTC 
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 3 Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2019-07-16 11:35:18 UTC 
Same on latest 11.3-RELEASE.

% pgrep clang++
pgrep: Cannot compile regular expression `clang++' (repetition-operator operand invalid)
Comment 4 Yuri Pankov freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2019-09-16 22:21:17 UTC 
Yes, that is expected behavior, from pgrep(1) man page:

     If any pattern operands are specified, they are used as extended regular
     expressions to match the command name or full argument list of each
     process.

You'll have to escape all characters that have special meaning in regular expressions, e.g.:

$ pgrep -lf a\\+\\+
63750 ./a++
Comment 5 Slawomir Wojciech Wojtczak 2019-09-17 11:57:42 UTC 
(In reply to Yuri Pankov from comment #4)

Pity but at least its documented.

Thank You for Your reply.

Regards.