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Re: grep is screwed on Debian, Ubuntu and others ...
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Richard Kettlewell |
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Re: grep is screwed on Debian, Ubuntu and others ... |
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Fri, 04 May 2012 09:12:29 +0100 |
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Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> writes:
> kaz@kylheku.com wrote:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655293
>>
>> I ran into this doing a simple grep job that needed to match upper
>> case characters, and so I started Googling. This was only reported in
>> January.
>>
>> But the Red Hat people knew about what looks like the same bug two years
>> ago. Oops, they didn't share!
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583011
>>
>> (So much for the spirit of collaboration in open source. My distro, my
>> patches, screw you!)
The fix linked from the RH bug is to upstream grep, so it's not clear in
what sense they "didn't share".
> Second; I guess that your abberent grep behaviour wrt 'a' is version
> dependant. Under GNU grep 2.5.3 (32bit Slackware Linux 12.2), I don't see
> the same results. In fact, I see the results you'd properly expect from
> grep.
It looks like it was dependent on both version and locale, as well as on
competence with regexp syntax.
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