Meta: Add a check to ensure grep -P stays gone

grep -P does not work on macOS, but grep -E does.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Meta/lint-shell-scripts.sh b/Meta/lint-shell-scripts.sh
index dfa00cec7e..37e1efcdb0 100755
--- a/Meta/lint-shell-scripts.sh
+++ b/Meta/lint-shell-scripts.sh
@@ -30,6 +30,15 @@ if (( ${#files[@]} )); then
     fi
 
     shellcheck "${files[@]}"
+
+    for file in "${files[@]}"; do
+        if (< "$file" grep -qE "grep [^|);]*-[^- ]*P"); then
+            # '\x2D' is the unicode escape sequence for '-'. This is used so
+            # that this script does not flag itself for containing grep dash P.
+            echo -e "The script '$file' contains 'grep \x2DP', which is not supported on macOS. Please use grep -E instead."
+            exit 1
+        fi
+    done
 else
     echo "No .sh files to check."
 fi