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Bug 45064

Summary: egrep fails to pars regular expression
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Jaroslaw Sosnicki <slavko>
Component: grepAssignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version: 1.0CC: slavko
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Description Jaroslaw Sosnicki 2001-06-19 23:42:12 UTC 
Description of Problem:

grep-2.5e-4.i386.rpm egrep is failing to parse requlare expression.
in the form [a-z0-9]

example:
echo '1abc.c'| egrep -e '[0-9]*\.c'     --- Works
echo '1abc.c'| egrep -e '[0-9a-z]*\.c'  --- Error!!! No output
echo '1abc.c'| egrep -e '[a-z]*\.c'     --- Works

Version grep-2.5e-2.i386.rpm works.

How Reproducible:

echo '1abc.c'| egrep -e '[0-9]*\.c'     --- Works

echo '1abc.c'| egrep -e '[0-9a-z]*\.c'  --- Error!!! No output

echo '1abc.c'| egrep -e '[a-z]*\.c'     --- Works

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-06-26 17:10:28 UTC 
Fixed by going back to 2.4.2