Bug 156105 - grep -Fw matches non-word
Summary: grep -Fw matches non-word
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: grep
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-27 16:26 UTC by Gordon Lack
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-04-27 16:59:33 UTC
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Description Gordon Lack 2005-04-27 16:26:07 UTC
Description of problem:

  grep -Fw may find an incorrect match

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

  grep-2.5.1-31

How reproducible:

   Every time.


Steps to Reproduce:
   Run grep -fW with 2 words to match, one which matches the end of a word and
the other teh start of the same word. But neither matches a whole word (well,
that seems to be the requirement).
  
Actual results:

   grep reports a match:


Expected results:

   grep should not report a match


Additional info:
   A specific example for grep built from the source rpm, with all patches applied.

my-system*[1] echo "LIN7C 55327" | ../grep-2.5.1a/src/grep -wF -e 5327 -e 5532 
LIN7C 55327


   This is grep-specific rather than FC3-specific.  Compiling the same code on
an Irix system produces the same error.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2005-04-27 16:59:33 UTC
Confirmed with 2.5.1-31.4.

This works fine in 2.5.1-48 from rawhide (Fedora Core development).


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