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grep not work

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by running the reported grep -E command in the repository's Windows environment and compare its output with Ubuntu. Trace the grep and regular-expression handling used for this command, then add or update a regression test showing the URL match and confirm the test passes.

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Description

cmd:

echo https://baidu.com | grep -E "^https?://[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+.[a-zA-Z]{2,}$"

no any output

but on the Ubuntu is work well.

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