Bug 81521 - grep outputs mismatched patterns
Summary: grep outputs mismatched patterns
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: grep
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-01-10 02:59 UTC by Zhao Wu
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-01-10 09:38:18 UTC
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Description Zhao Wu 2003-01-10 02:59:03 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)

Description of problem:
When I use regular expression in grep, it outputs lines which do not contain 
the specified patterns.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Just try the following at shell prompt:
echo "foo" |grep "[L-Z]"


Actual Results:  foo

Expected Results:  nothing should be output

Additional info:

At first, I thought it was a case-sensitivity problem, but later I found more 
problems. Note that in the above example, letter 'f' is not even in the list [l-
z]. grep is being constantly used by many scripts and programs, and this bug 
leads to a potential security breach.

Comment 1 Zhao Wu 2003-01-10 03:01:44 UTC
I forgot to mention that this is a new bug in Redhat 8.0. I tried on 7.3 and 
there is no such a bug.

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-01-10 09:38:18 UTC
You forgot to set LC_COLLATE.  See the bash FAQ question E9.

Comment 3 Zhao Wu 2003-01-10 19:38:15 UTC
Thanks for the FAQ info. LC_COLLATE works, but why does "foo" match "[L-Z]" 
even though 'f' is not in "lLmMnN...zZ"? Isn't that a bug?

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2003-01-10 22:54:13 UTC
Because 'o' is.


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