BusyBox 1.19.3, built against uClibc 0.9.32, on i686 Linux The Gnu regex extensions \` and \' work properly in busybox grep: # printf 'abc\ndef' | grep -oz '\`[a-f].' | od -cAn a b \0 # printf 'abc\ndef' | grep -oz '.[a-f]\'\' | od -cAn e f \0 So it looks like uClibc is handling them properly. And \' also seems to work right with BusyBox sed: # printf 'abc\ndef' | sed -n 'N; s/.[a-f]\'\''/=&=/gp'; echo abc d=ef= but there's something wrong with sed's handling of \`: # printf 'abc\ndef' | sed -n 'N; s/\`[a-f]./=&=/gp'; echo =ab==c ==de=f Expected output: =ab=c def
BusyBox awk also displays this issue with \`. Like sed, it works properly with \'.