433425 – app-misc/pax-utils - scanelf should support case-insensitive matching

Bug 433425 - app-misc/pax-utils - scanelf should support case-insensitive matching

Summary: app-misc/pax-utils - scanelf should support case-insensitive matching

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	solar (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2012-08-30 11:18 UTC by philomath
Modified:	2012-11-04 06:54 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description philomath 2012-08-30 11:18:34 UTC

It would be nice to have an option for scanelf (and related utilities) for
case-insensitive matching.
For example: "scanelf -gs '[_A-Za-z]*exit[_A-Za-z]*'" should be able to find uses
of _Exit, too.

Thanks.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-11-04 06:54:26 UTC

http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo-projects/pax-utils/scanelf.c?r1=1.245&r2=1.246

use -gg to get case insensitive matching