Re: Bug: grep -o '^.' Prints All Characters.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Mike,

> >     $ echo abc | grep -o '^.'
> >     a
> >     b
> >     c
> >     $
> >
> > I think it should print just one line;  `a'.
> 
> bug reports should usually go to the bug tracking page rather than
> reported to the mailing list ...

Oh, sorry.  My grep(1) still says

    Email bug reports to address@hidden  Be sure to include the
    word "grep" somewhere in the "Subject:" field.

I guess that's changed since.

> this issue though has already been fixed in grep-2.5.3 as noted by
> someone else recently on the mailing list

Great!  Is there a bug number for http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/ to go
with that?  I'll link the Ubuntu bug to it to save those guys some
research effort.  It may be http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?11579 but
that's an early 2005 bug and I'm not sure how to see when the suggested
patch made it into a released version.

Cheers,


Ralph.