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Why can't find -regex match a newline?
Why does this fail?
touch "$(printf "a\nb")"; find . -regex './.\n.'
I also tried these, none of which work:
find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.\n.'
find . -regextype posix-awk -regex '.\n.'
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