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#20768 [n|+| ] [grep] RFC: Multithreaded grep
Reported by: Zev Weiss <zev <at> bewilderbeest.net>; Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 05:33:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 9 years and 156 days ago; Modified 65 days ago;
#57696 [n|+| ] [grep] grep: Document that GREP_COLORS requires --color
Reported by: Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr <at> riseup.net>; Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2022 14:07:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 2 years and 61 days ago; Modified 2 years and 61 days ago;
#60690 [n|+|=] [grep] [PATCH v2] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P
Reported by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 12:19:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Merged with 62552, 62605; Filed 1 year and 304 days ago; Modified 1 year and 215 days ago;
#63334 [n|+| ] [grep] [PATCH] Add hurd-amd64 support
Reported by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault <at> gnu.org>; Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 19:07:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 1 year and 187 days ago; Modified 1 year and 187 days ago;
#66002 [n|+| ] [grep] [PATCH] build: suppress suggest-attribute=cold warnings
Reported by: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy <glebfm <at> altlinux.org>; Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 15:28:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: patch; Filed 1 year and 55 days ago; Modified 1 year and 54 days ago;

#15444 [n| | ] [grep] One character can be lost if colors are enabled
Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad <at> redhat.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:35:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 11 years and 49 days ago; Modified 226 days ago;
#16979 [n| | ] [grep] Strange behavior with "grep --color=auto" with dot in expression
Reported by: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney <at> brockmann-consult.de>; Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:47:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 10 years and 246 days ago; Modified 10 years and 219 days ago;
#21461 [n| | ] [grep] grep --color can leave terminal in weird state after signal
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:53:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 9 years and 61 days ago; Modified 9 years and 61 days ago;
#22793 [n| |=] [grep] grep -E assertion failure with back references
Reported by: santiagorr <at> riseup.net; Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:20:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 32806, 34238, 42946; Filed 8 years and 260 days ago; Modified 4 years and 49 days ago;
#24689 [n| | ] [grep] Multithreaded grep Available
Reported by: Aaron Zhou Qian <aaronzhouqian <at> ucla.edu>; Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:36:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 8 years and 27 days ago; Modified 7 years and 305 days ago;
#26864 [n| |=] [grep] Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned in known bugs
Reported by: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net <at> gmail.com>; Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 15:31:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 36148; Filed 7 years and 184 days ago; Modified 4 years and 312 days ago;
#29613 [n| | ] [grep] Debian Bug#883733: grep returns 0 even if there is no match
Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr <at> riseup.net>; Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 11:12:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 337 days ago; Modified 6 years and 337 days ago;
#32805 [n| | ] [grep] Stack overflow when processing "0?{77}{770}" extended regexp
Reported by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:21:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 6 years and 49 days ago; Modified 6 years and 49 days ago;
#38690 [n| | ] [grep] grep -P quadratic on long lines
Reported by: Martin Raszyk <m.raszyk <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 15:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 4 years and 325 days ago; Modified 4 years and 325 days ago;
#39678 [n| |=] [grep] 'grep --ignore-case --color' does not always color the matches
Reported by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg <at> telfort.nl>; Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 15:28:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 51255, 51256, 51257; Filed 4 years and 264 days ago; Modified 2 years and 169 days ago;
#56453 [n|N| ] [grep] Bug reports
Reported by: "GUI" <1678556598 <at> qq.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 16:40:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: notabug; Filed 2 years and 124 days ago; Modified 2 years and 122 days ago;
#57604 [n| |=] [grep] [ef]grep usage -> POSIXLY_CORRECT?
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>; Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 22:08:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 58502, 60257, 66582; Filed 2 years and 65 days ago; Modified 1 year and 23 days ago;
#60506 [n| | ] [grep] feature: parallel grep --recursive
Reported by: Eike Dierks <foonlyboy <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 00:22:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 311 days ago; Modified 1 year and 305 days ago;
#60697 [n| | ] [grep] GNU grep mishandles \b near encoding errors
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2023 23:01:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 304 days ago; Modified 1 year and 301 days ago;
#60708 [n| | ] [grep] pcre: improve support for linking with a library without unicode
Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:14:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 303 days ago; Modified 1 year and 300 days ago;
#61399 [n| | ] [grep] Issue with the "egrep" command
Reported by: Liu Wilson <wilson810911 <at> hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:07:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 272 days ago; Modified 1 year and 272 days ago;
#62003 [n| | ] [grep] Report a bug
Reported by: Belinda Maxwell <belindamaxwell45 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2023 15:46:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 248 days ago; Modified 1 year and 247 days ago;
#62090 [n| | ] [grep] Document how to perl's //s //m //sm etc.
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 22:52:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 245 days ago; Modified 1 year and 245 days ago;
#62483 [n| | ] [grep] echo a | grep -E -w '((()|a)|())*' # does not terminate
Reported by: Koen Claessen <koen <at> chalmers.se>; Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2023 13:15:05 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 227 days ago; Modified 1 year and 220 days ago;
#62639 [n| | ] [grep] RFE: Option to print file paths as hyperlinks
Reported by: Nelson Benítez León <nbenitezl <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 05:37:03 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 220 days ago; Modified 1 year and 220 days ago;
#62657 [n| | ] [grep] PCRE2-related workarounds that GNU grep might need
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 21:50:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 220 days ago; Modified 1 year and 219 days ago;
#62745 [n| | ] [grep] Color only capture group
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 06:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 213 days ago; Modified 1 year and 211 days ago;
#62811 [n| | ] [grep] grep 3.10: test suite fails with core dumps in two units
Reported by: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2023 09:37:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 210 days ago; Modified 1 year and 210 days ago;
#62983 [n| | ] [grep] workaround PCRE2 bug affecting at least \D and \W
Reported by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 02:05:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 203 days ago; Modified 1 year and 193 days ago;
#63484 [n| | ] [grep] FAIL: y2038-vs-32-bit
Reported by: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>; Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 14:15:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 180 days ago; Modified 1 year and 178 days ago;
#64887 [n| | ] [grep] grep build for windows `grep.exe` not working.
Reported by: Sajjad Ali <a.sajjad.72 <at> outlook.com>; Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 04:35:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 105 days ago; Modified 1 year and 105 days ago;
#66251 [n| | ] [grep] make [[:digit:]] consistent with \d when UCP mode is enabled in -P
Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 10:13:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 42 days ago; Modified 1 year and 42 days ago;
#66289 [n| | ] [grep] localeinfo.c:33:39: error: macro "static_assert" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke <at> blastwave.org>; Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2023 03:32:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 39 days ago; Modified 1 year and 36 days ago;
#66444 [n| | ] [grep] Impossibilidade de instalar novos programas no Ubuntu 23.04
Reported by: Clemen Hajian <clemen.hajian <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 14:50:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 1 year and 30 days ago; Modified 1 year and 30 days ago;
#68666 [n| | ] [grep] warning if --exclude-dir arg contains /?
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl <at> freefriends.org>; Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2024 23:49:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 291 days ago; Modified 290 days ago;
#68989 [n| | ] [grep] grep -m[2+] > /dev/null
Reported by: Grisha Levit <grishalevit <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 08:39:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 274 days ago; Modified 179 days ago;
#69445 [n| | ] [grep] Grep poorly handles ansi characters in filename match
Reported by: sjf5462 <at> rit.edu; Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 01:53:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 255 days ago; Modified 255 days ago;
#69929 [n| | ] [grep] Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines?
Reported by: Niels Möller <nisse <at> lysator.liu.se>; Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:58:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 232 days ago; Modified 228 days ago;
#70511 [n| | ] [grep] Option to grep into compressed files
Reported by: Mary <marycada <at> proton.me>; Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:52:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 200 days ago; Modified 186 days ago;
#70540 [n| | ] [grep] grep -c -r | grep -v ':0$'
Reported by: "Dale R. Worley" <worley <at> alum.mit.edu>; Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:34:13 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 199 days ago; Modified 194 days ago;
#71013 [n| |=] [grep] Bug Report: Unexpected Termination of grep Process
Reported by: Joseph Joshua <okikijoshua123 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 14:34:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Merged with 71079; Filed 175 days ago; Modified 172 days ago;
#71468 [n| | ] [grep] backref-multibyte-slow test fails on Cygwin
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 12:33:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 151 days ago; Modified 151 days ago;
#71471 [n| | ] [grep] case-fold-titlecase test fails on OpenBSD
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 13:11:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 151 days ago; Modified 151 days ago;
#72246 [n| | ] [grep] Possible PCRE bug in grep 3.11
Reported by: gdg <at> zplane.com; Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:26:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 109 days ago; Modified 109 days ago;
#72524 [n| | ] [grep] how does grep determine locale if no LC environment variables are set
Reported by: <mark.yagnatinsky <at> barclays.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 12:55:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 92 days ago; Modified 88 days ago;
#72850 [n| | ] [grep] Can't match ] in [ ] regexp bug?
Reported by: Khoa Ton <khoa <at> puresynergy.com>; Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 07:01:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 72 days ago; Modified 71 days ago;
#72985 [n| | ] [grep] Avoid using postal address in license.
Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 18:50:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Filed 67 days ago; Modified 67 days ago;

#25027 [n|M| ] [grep] Grep 2.25 misses lines in semi-large file
Reported by: Mattias Jiderhamn <mattias.jiderhamn <at> lexmark.com>; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 18:01:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 7 years and 350 days ago; Modified 7 years and 327 days ago;
#25643 [n|M| ] [grep] po/Makefile.in.in is missing top_builddir
Reported by: Max Horn <max <at> quendi.de>; Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 15:19:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 7 years and 276 days ago; Modified 7 years and 271 days ago;
#35051 [n|M| ] [grep] Fwd: grep
Reported by: Todd Hoatson <todd.hoatson <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:57:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 5 years and 225 days ago; Modified 4 years and 312 days ago;
#39591 [n|M| ] [grep] grep v3.4 after-context
Reported by: "Adams, John" <john.adams <at> anritsu.com>; Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:58:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 4 years and 270 days ago; Modified 4 years and 49 days ago;
#42623 [n|M| ] [grep] fgrep -x -f problem
Reported by: Arthur Goldberg <artgoldberg <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 18:00:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 4 years and 102 days ago; Modified 4 years and 49 days ago;
#51235 [n|M| ] [grep] resolve old FIXME in PCRE implementation to allow more than 1 expression
Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 07:29:01 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 3 years and 24 days ago; Modified 2 years and 350 days ago;
#54194 [n|M| ] [grep] Memory Leak on Fedora Machine
Reported by: Mahyar Mirrashed <mirrashm <at> myumanitoba.ca>; Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022 08:16:07 UTC; Severity: normal; Tags: moreinfo; Filed 2 years and 254 days ago; Modified 2 years and 254 days ago;

#16444 [m|M|=] [grep] grep -r fails with "Bad file descriptor" for mingw-w64
Reported by: "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl <at> nuwen.net>; Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:54:03 UTC; Severity: minor; Tags: moreinfo; Merged with 19777; Filed 10 years and 301 days ago; Modified 9 years and 165 days ago;

#18406 [w|+| ] [grep] O_NOATIME patch
Reported by: starlight.2014q3 <at> binnacle.cx; Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 21:39:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: patch; Filed 10 years and 68 days ago; Modified 4 years and 66 days ago;

#15729 [w| | ] [grep] "make distclean", "./bootstrap", symlinks, and absolute pathnames
Reported by: behoffski <behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>; Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 04:26:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 11 years and 15 days ago; Modified 10 years and 248 days ago;
#16812 [w| | ] [grep] Eszett handling
Reported by: mathstuf <at> gmail.com; Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:04:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 265 days ago; Modified 10 years and 199 days ago;
#16871 [w| | ] [grep] problems about matching newline (with -z)
Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:33:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 259 days ago; Modified 7 years and 357 days ago;
#17280 [w| | ] [grep] "Untangle" script to lay foundations for refactoring dfa.c
Reported by: behoffski <behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>; Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 02:52:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 208 days ago; Modified 10 years and 199 days ago;
#17381 [w| | ] [grep] _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE in dfa.h
Reported by: arnold <at> skeeve.com; Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 06:21:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 194 days ago; Modified 10 years and 185 days ago;
#17512 [w|N| ] [grep] Valgrind and regression tests?
Reported by: behoffski <behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>; Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 21:04:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: notabug; Filed 10 years and 179 days ago; Modified 10 years and 172 days ago;
#17687 [w| | ] [grep] enhancement request: contiguous lines
Reported by: al1chevee <at> yahoo.fr; Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 15:38:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 160 days ago; Modified 10 years and 160 days ago;
#17711 [w| | ] [grep] Updated "untangle" script: More functional, and resynced with 2.20
Reported by: behoffski <behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>; Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 03:53:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 158 days ago; Modified 10 years and 157 days ago;
#17712 [w| | ] [grep] Files created/modified by "untangle" script
Reported by: behoffski <behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>; Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 04:03:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 158 days ago; Modified 10 years and 157 days ago;
#18071 [w| | ] [grep] grep feature request: character mode
Reported by: mark <at> purdue.edu; Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 20:52:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 113 days ago; Modified 10 years and 113 days ago;
#18097 [w| | ] [grep] -m breaks -A
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 14:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 10 years and 110 days ago; Modified 10 years and 60 days ago;
#19348 [w| | ] [grep] grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files
Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad <at> redhat.com>; Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:32:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 9 years and 335 days ago; Modified 9 years and 334 days ago;
#21865 [w| | ] [grep] Parenthesis subexpressions
Reported by: Valerio Bozzolan <bozzolan.valerio <at> educ.di.unito.it>; Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 21:58:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 9 years and 3 days ago; Modified 8 years and 315 days ago;
#22059 [w| | ] [grep] grep -E: unexpected behaviour
Reported by: Charles <c <at> charlesmatkinson.org>; Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:23:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 346 days ago; Modified 8 years and 315 days ago;
#24382 [w| | ] [grep] grep should support -l and -n together
Reported by: Mathieu Jobin <somekool <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2016 15:36:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 8 years and 65 days ago; Modified 8 years and 65 days ago;
#25048 [w| | ] [grep] --with-included-regex vs. e-acute piped into LC_ALL=fr_FR.iso88591 grep '[d-f]'
Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>; Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 04:58:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 347 days ago; Modified 7 years and 327 days ago;
#25146 [w| | ] [grep] grep unusable on mingw - SAME_INODE woes
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>; Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 15:32:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 336 days ago; Modified 7 years and 327 days ago;
#26146 [w| | ] [grep] Is there a way to specify the separator instead of using : as default for --with-filename?
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 22:00:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 238 days ago; Modified 7 years and 142 days ago;
#26726 [w| | ] [grep] Support grepping multi-lines fixed-strings
Reported by: "ziyunfei" <446240525 <at> qq.com>; Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 06:54:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 193 days ago; Modified 7 years and 142 days ago;
#26904 [w| | ] [grep] Wishlist: Tell grep to stop when a line matches something else.
Reported by: LA-notifications <at> xecu.net; Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 05:57:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 181 days ago; Modified 7 years and 181 days ago;
#27902 [w| | ] [grep] Using -o with -v
Reported by: Arseny Sher <sher-ars <at> yandex.ru>; Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 09:20:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 101 days ago; Modified 4 years and 314 days ago;
#28081 [w| | ] [grep] way to change line number separator from colon to space?
Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap <at> gmx.net>; Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 18:24:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 89 days ago; Modified 4 years and 314 days ago;
#28304 [w| | ] [grep] Feature Request - Quit on Non Match
Reported by: Adam Danischewski <adam.danischewski <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 14:44:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 71 days ago; Modified 7 years and 71 days ago;
#28306 [w| | ] [grep] grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents
Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr <at> riseup.net>; Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 15:39:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 7 years and 71 days ago; Modified 4 years and 314 days ago;
#30033 [w| | ] [grep] `grep --fixed-strings --regexp=…` is an annoying syntax → Introduce --pattern=… option
Reported by: "H.-Dirk Schmitt" <admin <at> computer42.org>; Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 21:35:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 306 days ago; Modified 4 years and 314 days ago;
#30372 [w| | ] [grep] context word control
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 20:31:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 277 days ago; Modified 4 years and 314 days ago;
#30535 [w| |=] [grep] Output buffer overwritten when CR in file
Reported by: Wayne Gemmell <wayne <at> gemmell.co.za>; Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:31:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 30652; Filed 6 years and 264 days ago; Modified 4 years and 313 days ago;
#31071 [w| | ] [grep] Previous color lost when using --color=always option
Reported by: Adrian H <adrianh.bsc <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018 21:32:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 219 days ago; Modified 4 years and 313 days ago;
#31537 [w|N| ] [grep] Combining -v and -A/-B/-C options
Reported by: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713 <at> galex-713.eu>; Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 01:58:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Tags: notabug; Filed 6 years and 175 days ago; Modified 4 years and 313 days ago;
#32073 [w| | ] [grep] Improvements in Grep
Reported by: Sergiu Hlihor <sh <at> discovergy.com>; Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 21:32:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 127 days ago; Modified 4 years and 312 days ago;
#32704 [w| | ] [grep] Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the same time?
Reported by: 21naown <at> gmail.com; Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:27:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 6 years and 60 days ago; Modified 4 years and 49 days ago;
#32838 [w| |=] [grep] Regression in grep 3.1: Grep '$' matcher no longer works on CRLF files on Windows
Reported by: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.kolinko <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:16:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Merged with 33162; Filed 6 years and 46 days ago; Modified 4 years and 49 days ago;
#35043 [w| | ] [grep] Is there a way to show file name once just before all the matches in the file?
Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:48:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 226 days ago; Modified 4 years and 312 days ago;
#35337 [w| | ] [grep] Document the recommended way to get the :0s out of -c output
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2019 12:22:03 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 204 days ago; Modified 5 years and 204 days ago;
#35626 [w| | ] [grep] Beef up "conflicting matchers specified" error message
Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>; Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 05:41:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 186 days ago; Modified 5 years and 186 days ago;
#36612 [w| | ] [grep] Expand "no" options
Reported by: Steven Penny <svnpenn <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 01:13:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 122 days ago; Modified 2 years and 233 days ago;
#37607 [w| | ] [grep] How to use Grep with Using -o
Reported by: Matt Zand <mahdiumd <at> gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:09:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 5 years and 38 days ago; Modified 4 years and 312 days ago;
#37753 [w| | ] [grep] wish for glob(7)-like matcher
Reported by: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:44:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 2.20-4; Filed 5 years and 27 days ago; Modified 4 years and 362 days ago;
#37754 [w| | ] [grep] wish for grep --and -eX -eY -eZ (X∩Y∩Z intersection, not X∪Y∪Z union)
Reported by: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:49:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Found in version 3.3-1; Filed 5 years and 27 days ago; Modified 1 year and 296 days ago;
#42245 [w| | ] [grep] grep -l -c does not work like expected
Reported by: muellae <at> online.de; Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 14:46:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 4 years and 125 days ago; Modified 4 years and 49 days ago;
#42501 [w| | ] [grep] feature request: exclude-vcs option
Reported by: Steve Ward <planet36 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 01:33:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 4 years and 109 days ago; Modified 125 days ago;
#42762 [w| | ] [grep] GREP does not support Unicode
Reported by: <carlo <at> kwpg.info>; Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 14:51:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 4 years and 93 days ago; Modified 3 years and 281 days ago;
#44538 [w| | ] [grep] grep -E might exhaust stack space
Reported by: JIang Yuancheng <0599jiangyc <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 17:45:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 4 years ago; Modified 3 years and 74 days ago;
#45849 [w| | ] [grep] Autoconf options and dependencies
Reported by: noloader <at> gmail.com; Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2021 00:06:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 300 days ago; Modified 3 years and 68 days ago;
#47001 [w| | ] [grep] Feature request: give a meaning to -A/-B/-C with -o
Reported by: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>; Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 08:22:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 246 days ago; Modified 3 years and 246 days ago;
#50270 [w| | ] [grep] Suggestion
Reported by: Ojas Zanpure <ojaszanpure <at> gmail.com>; Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2021 14:58:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years and 71 days ago; Modified 3 years and 68 days ago;
#51727 [w| | ] [grep] add an optional flag to -P to disable JIT
Reported by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 19:05:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 3 years ago; Modified 2 years and 362 days ago;
#52851 [w| | ] [grep] git grep feature: boolean logic
Reported by: Kevin Connor Arpe <kevinarpe <at> gmail.com>; Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:56:01 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 2 years and 316 days ago; Modified 2 years and 316 days ago;
#55331 [w| | ] [grep] Improved support for combining diacritics
Reported by: Benson Muite <benson_muite <at> emailplus.org>; Date: Mon, 9 May 2022 07:04:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 2 years and 184 days ago; Modified 2 years and 184 days ago;
#56079 [w| | ] [grep] Missing performance optimisation: Word start/end tests
Reported by: sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski <at> grouse.com.au>; Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 05:40:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 2 years and 143 days ago; Modified 2 years and 130 days ago;
#64277 [w| | ] [grep] [feature request] handle files encoded in utf-16le
Reported by: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2023 21:24:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 1 year and 138 days ago; Modified 1 year and 136 days ago;
#64943 [w| | ] [grep] feature request: "--exclude-vcs-ignores" option
Reported by: Sebastian Carlos <sebaaa1754 <at> gmail.com>; Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 05:52:02 UTC; Severity: wishlist; Filed 1 year and 102 days ago; Modified 1 year and 102 days ago;

#74159 [n| | ] [grep] Unexpected exit code of 0 when -q is set and close_stdout fails
Reported by: Jan Černohorský <jan <at> kam.mff.cuni.cz>; Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 13:22:04 UTC; Severity: normal; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Can be archived in 23 days; Filed 7 days ago;
#74205 [n| | ] [grep] man: dots and closing bracket in wrong order
Reported by: Martin Schulte <gnu <at> schrader-schulte.de>; Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2024 20:29:02 UTC; Severity: normal; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>; Can be archived in 24 days;

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- 53 Wishlist items
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