Re: Bug#440409: grep -w is broken

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

I am unable to confirm this bug. GNU grep 2.5.3 from ftp.gnu.org and from
Savannah CVS works fine with -w in that it does not imply -o. I tested
this on Mac OS X and Debian under different locales.

If you can reproduce this bug with the CVS or the release version, let me
know.

Cheers,

TAA


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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> tag 440409 upstream confirmed
> forwarded 440409 address@hidden
> forcemerge 440409 439827 439931 440195 440342
> thanks
>
> grep -w regression was reported again.
>
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> > Package: grep
> > Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-1
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks unrelated software
> >
> >
> >   grep -w is completely broken as it does not print hits on separate
> > lines like it should:
> >
> > $ /bin/grep -w p_new *.c
> > archive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarray.c:p_newarray.c:p_newblob-iconv.c:p_newbtree.c:p_newbtree.c:p_newconcatbin.c:p_newfarch.c:p_newfifo.c:p_newint_array.c:p_newisndx.c:p_newisndx.c:p_newlog_limit.c:p_newlog_limit.c:p_newlog_limit.c:p_newmem-fifo-pool.c:p_newmmappedfile.c:p_newpaged-index.c:p_newstats-temporal.c:p_newtst-btree.c:p_newtst-isndx.c:p_newxml.c:p_new
> >
> >
> >   grep though does the right thing:
> > $ /bin/grep p_new *.c
> > archive.c:    head = p_new(archive_head, 1);
> > archive.c:    file = p_new(archive_file, 1);
> > archive.c:        file->attrs = p_new(archive_file_attr *, file->nb_attrs);
> > [...]
> >
> >   This breaks scripts using grep -w and parsing the output very badly.
> >
>
>