Lew Pitcher <[email protected]> writes: > [email protected] 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. -- http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
