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

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> 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.

The email address changed, not the procedure. It is fine to submit bug 
reports to the mailing list. If the bug is confirmed and needs to be 
recorded one of us (original reporter or someone on the list) can post 
it on Savannah.

> > 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.

Looks like it, but I can't say for sure. You can check the ChangeLog 
file for when things where committed. The next release after that date 
would've contained the fix. We don't use branches in grep development, 
so the CVS is kept stable as much as possible.

Cheers,

TAA

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