Bug#279635: [Logcheck-devel] Bug#279635: logcheck: empty line in `local' file is copied to egrep pattern file

[Todd Troxell]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 12:11:34PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Gerfried Fuchs <alfie at ist.org> [2004-11-05 11:32]:
> egrep --text -v '^[[:space:]]*$|^#' $dir/$rulefile ....
> 
>  In above we have "(^#|^[[:space:]]*$)".  Is there a reason for the ()
> in above?  (answers to this though might be better redirected to
> logcheck-devel at alioth.debian.org directly)

I see no reason for the () in this expression.  Thanks for the quick patch
work <:

Cheers,

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[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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