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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.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-3
grep -w was broken in a previous upload but fixed by this version.
$ cat /proc/stat |./tmp/grep.unstable -w cpu; echo
cpu
$ cat /proc/stat |grep -w cpu; echo
cpu 6465668 212104 1288498 158553905 5061378 949080 15399 0
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:19:01AM -0300, Tony Abou-Assaleh wrote:
> 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
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Tony Abou-Assaleh
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web site: http://tony.abou-assaleh.net
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>
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Justin Pryzby wrote:
>
> > tag 440342 upstream confirmed
> > forwarded 440342 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > thanks
> >
> > This regression was reported for the new grep upload.
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:43:26AM -0700, Norbert Kiesel wrote:
> > > Package: grep
> > > Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-1
> > > Severity: important
> > >
> > > There is a regression in this grep: a "cat /proc/stat | grep -w cpu"
> > > only shows the word "cpu" and not the whole line containing that word
> > > (i.e. it behaves as if I had run "cat /proc/stat | grep -wo cpu"). That
> > > makes "-w" pretty useless. grep-2.5.1.ds2-6 from Debian stable does not
> > > have this bug.
> >
> >
>
>
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