Ok, thanks for that confirmation. I upgraded to latest version I could find and it's working:
[root@localhost ~]# echo teST |/bin/grep -iP '\Qtest\E'
teST
[root@localhost ~]# /bin/grep --version
GNU grep 2.6.3
Stormy.
--- On Sat, 8/28/10, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> From: Philip Hazel <ph10@???>
> Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] How to use \Q \E in GREP in a case-insensitive way?
> To: "Stormy" <stormy1777@???>
> Cc: "Paolo Bonzini" <bonzini@???>, pcre-dev@???, "grep help" <bug-grep@???>
> Date: Saturday, August 28, 2010, 1:53 AM
> On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, Stormy wrote:
>
> > How do I submit a bug so this gets fixed? As you
> can see, workaround inside perl directly works fine:
> >
> > # echo TesT | perl -ne '/\Qtest\E/ and print'
> > # echo TesT | perl -ne '/\Qtest\E/i and print'
> > TesT
>
> You need to get your grep fixed. This is not a bug in PCRE
> or pcregrep.
> In my version of grep (on Gentoo Linux) it also works:
>
> $ echo teST | pcregrep -i '\Qtest\E'
> teST
> $ echo teST | grep -iP '\Qtest\E'
> teST
>
> My grep is GNU grep 2.5.4. I assume it's using the
> installed PCRE
> library, which is 7.9. Check that you are using the latest
> releases of
> grep and the PCRE library. If you are, complain to the
> maintainers of
> grep. If not, try to update.
>
> Philip
>
> --
> Philip Hazel
>
