Bug 85532 - GREP (regex) broken.
Summary: GREP (regex) broken.
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 76328
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: grep
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Mike McLean
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-03-03 22:48 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2006-02-21 18:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:52:05 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2003-03-03 22:48:16 UTC
Description of problem: Regular expression in grep is misinterpreted/broken. It 
works on FreeBSD. It seems to effect all programs using regular expression.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grep-2.5.1-4


How reproducible:very


Steps to Reproduce: 
Using file: testgrep.txt
abcXYZ
abcd
XYZ

1. 
Actual results:

grep [A-Z] testgrep.txt   - DOES NOT WORK! Lower case "abcd" should not printed.
abcXYZ
abcd
XYZ

grep [YZ] testgrep.txt        - WORKS!
abcXYZ
XYZ

grep [a-z] testgrep.txt       - DOES NOT WORK! Should not print XYZ
abcXYZ
abcd
XYZ

grep [Y-Z] testgrep.txt       - WORKS!
abcXYZ
XYZ


Expected results: As described above. It works properly on FreeBSD.

Additional info: Probably a broken regex C library routine. As this is a basic 
routine used in so many commands and applications, it is A VERY SERIOUS ERROR.

Comment 1 Mike McLean 2003-03-03 23:08:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76328 ***

Comment 2 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:52:05 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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