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Normal bugs - outstanding:

• #15444: One character can be lost if colors are enabled
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@HIDDEN>; 2476 days old.
• #16979: Strange behavior with "grep --color=auto" with dot in expression
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@HIDDEN>; 2308 days old.
• #18454: Improve performance when -P (PCRE) is used in UTF-8 locales
  Package: grep; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 2122 days old.
• #19420: intermittent segfault using grep -P
  Package: grep; Reported by: "J.P. Hendrix" <bug-grep-gnu.org@HIDDEN>; 2022 days old.
• #20768: RFC: Multithreaded grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Zev Weiss <zev@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1853 days old.
• #21461: grep --color can leave terminal in weird state after signal
  Package: grep; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 1758 days old.
• #22345: consider upgrade to PCRE2
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 1636 days old.
• #22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@HIDDEN>; 1599 days old.
• #22793: grep -E assertion failure with back references
  Package: grep; Reported by: santiagorr@HIDDEN; merged with #32806, #34238; 1592 days old.
• #24689: Multithreaded grep Available
  Package: grep; Reported by: Aaron Zhou Qian <aaronzhouqian@HIDDEN>; 1359 days old.
• #25027: Grep 2.25 misses lines in semi-large file
  Package: grep; Reported by: Mattias Jiderhamn <mattias.jiderhamn@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 1316 days old.
• #25643: po/Makefile.in.in is missing top_builddir
  Package: grep; Reported by: Max Horn <max@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 1243 days old.
• #26205: Unhappy with deprecating GREP_OPTIONS
  Package: grep; Reported by: Thomas Güttler <guettliml@HIDDEN>; Keywords: wontfix; 1201 days old.
• #26864: Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned in known bugs
  Package: grep; Reported by: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net@HIDDEN>; merged with #36148; 1151 days old.
• #27555: cygwin surrogate-pair test now fails (since grep-2.22, and no one noticed)
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 1098 days old.
• #28083: Two patches for grep on Windows, fixing directory recursion and leaking color
  Package: grep; Reported by: Stephan Lavavej <stl@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch pending; 1055 days old.
• #29446: GNU grep 3.1 fails test suite when PCRE lacks JIT
  Package: grep; Reported by: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@HIDDEN>; 951 days old.
• #29613: Debian Bug#883733: grep returns 0 even if there is no match
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 939 days old.
• #29668: grep: Fatal problem with (big) file
  Package: grep; Reported by: pg <pasi.vitsa@HIDDEN>; 935 days old.
• #32704: Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the same time?
  Package: grep; Reported by: 21naown@HIDDEN; 662 days old.
• #32805: Stack overflow when processing "0?{77}{770}" extended regexp
  Package: grep; Reported by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@HIDDEN>; 651 days old.
• #32806: An assertion is hit when processing "(|()()0)\2" extended regular expression
  Package: grep; Reported by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@HIDDEN>; merged with #22793, #34238; 651 days old.
• #32838: Regression in grep 3.1: Grep '$' matcher no longer works on CRLF files on Windows
  Package: grep; Reported by: Konstantin Kolinko <knst.kolinko@HIDDEN>; merged with #33162; 648 days old.
• #33162: Pattern partially greps windows line-endings since 3.1
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Holger Klene" <h.klene@HIDDEN>; merged with #32838; 617 days old.
• #33552: Possible bug with handling -I option
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jason Franklin <jrf@HIDDEN>; 582 days old.
• #34238: Assertion `num >= 0' failed at regexec.c:1363
  Package: grep; Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@HIDDEN>; merged with #22793, #32806; 522 days old.
• #35051: Fwd: grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Todd Hoatson <todd.hoatson@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 461 days old.
• #36148: inconsistent behaviour with anchored regex containing back-references
  Package: grep; Reported by: g1pi@HIDDEN; merged with #26864; 391 days old.
• #38690: grep -P quadratic on long lines
  Package: grep; Reported by: Martin Raszyk <m.raszyk@HIDDEN>; 197 days old.
• #38714: 'make dist' fails on grep master (Fedora 31)
  Package: grep; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 194 days old.
• #38792: man grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Martin Simons <martin@HIDDEN>; 188 days old.
• #39206: lib/unistr/u8-uctomb.c fails to compile
  Package: grep; Reported by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@HIDDEN>; 166 days old.
• #39582: --include only works with -r
  Package: grep; Reported by: Fernando Roa <froao@HIDDEN>; 142 days old.
• #39591: grep v3.4 after-context
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Adams, John" <john.adams@HIDDEN>; 142 days old.
• #39678: 'grep --ignore-case --color' does not always color the matches
  Package: grep; Reported by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@HIDDEN>; 136 days old.
• #40395: Building Grep with PCRE support
  Package: grep; Reported by: noloader@HIDDEN; 92 days old.
• #40477: Segfault with grep-3.4 and pcre-8.44
  Package: grep; Reported by: Bruce Dubbs <bruce.dubbs@HIDDEN>; 88 days old.
• #40634: Massive pattern list handling with -E format seems very slow since 2.28.
  Package: grep; Reported by: fryasu@HIDDEN; 80 days old.
• #40868: Grep C library for multi-string pattern matching?
  Package: grep; Reported by: noloader@HIDDEN; 69 days old.
• #41004: Documentation:enhancement - search for hexvalue
  Package: grep; Reported by: Radisson97@HIDDEN; 64 days old.
• #41262: Weird behavior with grep regex
  Package: grep; Reported by: <loic.tregouet@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; 51 days old.
• #41700: grep -v always exiting with 1 for empty file
  Package: grep; Reported by: Andi Kleen <andi@HIDDEN>; 30 days old.
• #41999: Grep 3.4, Solaris 11.3 and FAIL: test-nl_langinfo-mt
  Package: grep; Reported by: noloader@HIDDEN; 12 days old.

Minor bugs - outstanding:

• #16444: grep -r fails with "Bad file descriptor" for mingw-w64
  Package: grep; Severity: minor; Reported by: "Stephan T. Lavavej" <stl@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; merged with #19777; 2363 days old.
• #19777: Cross compiling grep for Mingw-w64 and wildcards don't work
  Package: grep; Severity: minor; Reported by: Guitar Hero <guitarhero683@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; merged with #16444; 1976 days old.

Wishlist items - outstanding:

• #15729: "make distclean", "./bootstrap", symlinks, and absolute pathnames
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2442 days old.
• #16812: Eszett handling
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: mathstuf@HIDDEN; 2326 days old.
• #16871: problems about matching newline (with -z)
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@HIDDEN>; 2321 days old.
• #17280: "Untangle" script to lay foundations for refactoring dfa.c
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2270 days old.
• #17381: _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE in dfa.h
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: arnold@HIDDEN; 2256 days old.
• #17512: Valgrind and regression tests?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; 2240 days old.
• #17687: enhancement request: contiguous lines
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: al1chevee@HIDDEN; 2222 days old.
• #17711: Updated "untangle" script: More functional, and resynced with 2.20
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2220 days old.
• #17712: Files created/modified by "untangle" script
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2220 days old.
• #17981: [PATCH] maint.mk: less syntax-check noise when SIGPIPE is ignored
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 2186 days old.
• #18071: grep feature request: character mode
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: mark@HIDDEN; 2174 days old.
• #18097: -m breaks -A
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 2172 days old.
• #18406: O_NOATIME patch
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: starlight.2014q3@HIDDEN; Keywords: patch; 2129 days old.
• #19348: grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@HIDDEN>; 2032 days old.
• #20657: Traditional range expression not accepted in regex/dfa
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: arnold@HIDDEN; 1866 days old.
• #20990: RFC: [PATCH] accept new option: --files0-from=F
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; Keywords: wontfix patch; 1825 days old.
• #21865: Parenthesis subexpressions
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Valerio Bozzolan <bozzolan.valerio@HIDDEN>; 1699 days old.
• #22059: grep -E: unexpected behaviour
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Charles <c@HIDDEN>; 1678 days old.
• #23267: suggestion: silently ignore EPIPE errors when SIGPIPE is set to 'ignore'
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN>; 1545 days old.
• #23562: grep seems to write some error messages to stdout data stream --- shouldn't it be to stderr?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "John Refling" <netbsdrat@HIDDEN>; 1509 days old.
• #24382: grep should support -l and -n together
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Mathieu Jobin <somekool@HIDDEN>; 1397 days old.
• #25048: --with-included-regex vs. e-acute piped into LC_ALL=fr_FR.iso88591 grep '[d-f]'
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 1314 days old.
• #25146: grep unusable on mingw - SAME_INODE woes
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 1303 days old.
• #26146: Is there a way to specify the separator instead of using : as default for --with-filename?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 1204 days old.
• #26726: Support grepping multi-lines fixed-strings
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "ziyunfei" <446240525@HIDDEN>; 1160 days old.
• #26904: Wishlist: Tell grep to stop when a line matches something else.
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: LA-notifications@HIDDEN; 1148 days old.
• #27902: Using -o with -v
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Arseny Sher <sher-ars@HIDDEN>; 1068 days old.
• #28081: way to change line number separator from colon to space?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 1055 days old.
• #28304: Feature Request - Quit on Non Match
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Adam Danischewski <adam.danischewski@HIDDEN>; 1038 days old.
• #28306: grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 1038 days old.
• #30033: `grep --fixed-strings --regexp=…` is an annoying syntax → Introduce --pattern=… option
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "H.-Dirk Schmitt" <admin@HIDDEN>; 907 days old.
• #30372: context word control
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 878 days old.
• #30535: Output buffer overwritten when CR in file
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Wayne Gemmell <wayne@HIDDEN>; merged with #30652; 865 days old.
• #30643: Mention . won't match illegal characters
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 857 days old.
• #30652: Empty lines when using color and searching through files with DOS newline
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: DrSlony <entertheyoni@HIDDEN>; merged with #30535; 857 days old.
• #31071: Previous color lost when using --color=always option
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Adrian H <adrianh.bsc@HIDDEN>; 820 days old.
• #31537: Combining -v and -A/-B/-C options
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; 776 days old.
• #32073: Improvements in Grep
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Sergiu Hlihor <sh@HIDDEN>; 728 days old.
• #34288: Mention how to trigger ':' without filemane
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 518 days old.
• #35043: Is there a way to show file name once just before all the matches in the file?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 462 days old.
• #35337: Document the recommended way to get the :0s out of -c output
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 441 days old.
• #35339: Say what buffering is not --line-buffered
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 441 days old.
• #35626: Beef up "conflicting matchers specified" error message
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 423 days old.
• #36612: Expand "no" options
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@HIDDEN>; 358 days old.
• #37607: How to use Grep with Using -o
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Matt Zand <mahdiumd@HIDDEN>; 275 days old.
• #37753: wish for glob(7)-like matcher
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@HIDDEN>; 263 days old.
• #37754: wish for grep --and -eX -eY -eZ (X∩Y∩Z intersection, not X∪Y∪Z union)
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@HIDDEN>; 263 days old.

Normal bugs - resolved:

• #41687: regex search for indexed files
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN>.