GNU bug reports: package grep
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Normal bugs - outstanding:
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- #15444: One character can be lost if colors are enabled
Package: grep;
Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@HIDDEN>; 4308 days old.
- #16979: Strange behavior with "grep --color=auto" with dot in expression
Package: grep;
Reported by: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@HIDDEN>; 4140 days old.
- #20768: RFC: Multithreaded grep
Package: grep;
Reported by: Zev Weiss <zev@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch; 3686 days old.
- #21461: grep --color can leave terminal in weird state after signal
Package: grep;
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 3590 days old.
- #22793: grep -E assertion failure with back references
Package: grep;
Reported by: santiagorr@HIDDEN;
merged with #32806,
#34238,
#42946; 3424 days old.
- #24689: Multithreaded grep Available
Package: grep;
Reported by: Aaron Zhou Qian <aaronzhouqian@HIDDEN>; 3191 days old.
- #25027: Grep 2.25 misses lines in semi-large file
Package: grep;
Reported by: Mattias Jiderhamn <mattias.jiderhamn@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 3149 days old.
- #25643: po/Makefile.in.in is missing top_builddir
Package: grep;
Reported by: Max Horn <max@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 3075 days old.
- #26864: Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned in known bugs
Package: grep;
Reported by: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net@HIDDEN>;
merged with #36148; 2983 days old.
- #29613: Debian Bug#883733: grep returns 0 even if there is no match
Package: grep;
Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 2772 days old.
- #32805: Stack overflow when processing "0?{77}{770}" extended regexp
Package: grep;
Reported by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@HIDDEN>; 2483 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,
#42946; 2483 days old.
- #34238: Assertion `num >= 0' failed at regexec.c:1363
Package: grep;
Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@HIDDEN>;
merged with #22793,
#32806,
#42946; 2355 days old.
- #35051: Fwd: grep
Package: grep;
Reported by: Todd Hoatson <todd.hoatson@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 2294 days old.
- #36148: inconsistent behaviour with anchored regex containing back-references
Package: grep;
Reported by: g1pi@HIDDEN;
merged with #26864; 2223 days old.
- #38690: grep -P quadratic on long lines
Package: grep;
Reported by: Martin Raszyk <m.raszyk@HIDDEN>; 2029 days old.
- #39591: grep v3.4 after-context
Package: grep;
Reported by: "Adams, John" <john.adams@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 1974 days old.
- #39678: 'grep --ignore-case --color' does not always color the matches
Package: grep;
Reported by: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@HIDDEN>;
merged with #51255,
#51256,
#51257; 1968 days old.
- #42623: fgrep -x -f problem
Package: grep;
Reported by: Arthur Goldberg <artgoldberg@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 1806 days old.
- #42946: grep: invalid read in pop_fail_stack
Package: grep;
Reported by: Luca Borzacchiello <borzacchiello@HIDDEN>;
merged with #22793,
#32806,
#34238; 1786 days old.
- #51235: resolve old FIXME in PCRE implementation to allow more than 1 expression
Package: grep;
Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 1364 days old.
- #51255: #39678: grep --ignore-case --color does not always color the matches
Package: grep;
Reported by: Tomasz Dziendzielski <tomasz.dziendzielski@HIDDEN>;
merged with #39678,
#51256,
#51257; 1362 days old.
- #51256: grep --ignore-case --color does not always color the matches
Package: grep;
Reported by: Tomasz Dziendzielski <tomasz.dziendzielski@HIDDEN>;
merged with #39678,
#51255,
#51257; 1362 days old.
- #51257: grep --ignore-case --color does not always color the matches
Package: grep;
Reported by: Tomasz Dziendzielski <tomasz.dziendzielski@HIDDEN>;
merged with #39678,
#51255,
#51256; 1362 days old.
- #54194: Memory Leak on Fedora Machine
Package: grep;
Reported by: Mahyar Mirrashed <mirrashm@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: moreinfo; 1229 days old.
- #56453: Bug reports
Package: grep;
Reported by: "GUI" <1678556598@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: notabug; 1098 days old.
- #57604: [ef]grep usage -> POSIXLY_CORRECT?
Package: grep;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>;
merged with #58502,
#60257,
#66582; 1039 days old.
- #58502: We should not deprecate egrep and fgrep
Package: grep;
Reported by: Sam Trenholme <maradns@HIDDEN>;
merged with #57604,
#60257,
#66582; 1001 days old.
- #60257: please fix warnings from egrep and fgrep
Package: grep;
Reported by: Thomas Wolff <towo@HIDDEN>;
merged with #57604,
#58502,
#66582; 931 days old.
- #60506: feature: parallel grep --recursive
Package: grep;
Reported by: Eike Dierks <foonlyboy@HIDDEN>; 920 days old.
- #60690: [PATCH v2] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P
Package: grep;
Reported by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch;
merged with #62552,
#62605; 913 days old.
- #60697: GNU grep mishandles \b near encoding errors
Package: grep;
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 913 days old.
- #60708: pcre: improve support for linking with a library without unicode
Package: grep;
Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@HIDDEN>; 913 days old.
- #61399: Issue with the "egrep" command
Package: grep;
Reported by: Liu Wilson <wilson810911@HIDDEN>; 882 days old.
- #62003: Report a bug
Package: grep;
Reported by: Belinda Maxwell <belindamaxwell45@HIDDEN>; 857 days old.
- #62090: Document how to perl's //s //m //sm etc.
Package: grep;
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 854 days old.
- #62483: echo a | grep -E -w '((()|a)|())*' # does not terminate
Package: grep;
Reported by: Koen Claessen <koen@HIDDEN>; 836 days old.
- #62552: Bug found in latest stable release v3.10 of grep
Package: grep;
Reported by: mega lith01 <megalith01@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch;
merged with #60690,
#62605; 833 days old.
- #62605: `[\d]` does not work with PCRE
Package: grep;
Reported by: Tukusej’s Sirs <tukusejssirs@HIDDEN>;
Keywords: patch;
merged with #60690,
#62552; 831 days old.
- #62639: RFE: Option to print file paths as hyperlinks
Package: grep;
Reported by: Nelson Benítez León <nbenitezl@HIDDEN>; 830 days old.
- #62657: PCRE2-related workarounds that GNU grep might need
Package: grep;
Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 829 days old.
- #62745: Color only capture group
Package: grep;
Reported by: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 823 days old.
- #62811: grep 3.10: test suite fails with core dumps in two units
Package: grep;
Reported by: Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczko.tomasz@HIDDEN>; 820 days old.
- #62983: workaround PCRE2 bug affecting at least \D and \W
Package: grep;
Reported by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@HIDDEN>; 812 days old.
- #63484: FAIL: y2038-vs-32-bit
Package: grep;
Reported by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@HIDDEN>; 789 days old.
- #64887: grep build for windows `grep.exe` not working.
Package: grep;
Reported by: Sajjad Ali <a.sajjad.72@HIDDEN>; 715 days old.
- #66251: make [[:digit:]] consistent with \d when UCP mode is enabled in -P
Package: grep;
Reported by: Carlo Arenas <carenas@HIDDEN>; 652 days old.
- #66289: localeinfo.c:33:39: error: macro "static_assert" requires 2 arguments, but only 1 given
Package: grep;
Reported by: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@HIDDEN>; 649 days old.
- #66444: Impossibilidade de instalar novos programas no Ubuntu 23.04
Package: grep;
Reported by: Clemen Hajian <clemen.hajian@HIDDEN>; 639 days old.
- #66582: annoying, needless warning messages from [fe]grep
Package: grep;
Reported by: Noah Friedman <noah@HIDDEN>;
merged with #57604,
#58502,
#60257; 633 days old.
- #68666: warning if --exclude-dir arg contains /?
Package: grep;
Reported by: Karl Berry <karl@HIDDEN>; 535 days old.
- #68989: grep -m[2+] > /dev/null
Package: grep;
Reported by: Grisha Levit <grishalevit@HIDDEN>; 519 days old.
- #69445: Grep poorly handles ansi characters in filename match
Package: grep;
Reported by: sjf5462@HIDDEN; 499 days old.
- #69929: Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines?
Package: grep;
Reported by: Niels Möller <nisse@HIDDEN>; 476 days old.
- #70511: Option to grep into compressed files
Package: grep;
Reported by: Mary <marycada@HIDDEN>; 445 days old.
- #70540: grep -c -r | grep -v ':0$'
Package: grep;
Reported by: "Dale R. Worley" <worley@HIDDEN>; 443 days old.
- #71013: Bug Report: Unexpected Termination of grep Process
Package: grep;
Reported by: Joseph Joshua <okikijoshua123@HIDDEN>;
merged with #71079; 419 days old.
- #71079: Bug Report: Unexpected Termination of grep Process
Package: grep;
Reported by: Joseph Joshua <okikijoshua123@HIDDEN>;
merged with #71013; 416 days old.
- #71468: backref-multibyte-slow test fails on Cygwin
Package: grep;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 395 days old.
- #71471: case-fold-titlecase test fails on OpenBSD
Package: grep;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 395 days old.
- #72246: Possible PCRE bug in grep 3.11
Package: grep;
Reported by: gdg@HIDDEN; 353 days old.
- #72524: how does grep determine locale if no LC environment variables are set
Package: grep;
Reported by: <mark.yagnatinsky@HIDDEN>; 336 days old.
- #72850: Can't match ] in [ ] regexp bug?
Package: grep;
Reported by: Khoa Ton <khoa@HIDDEN>; 317 days old.
- #72985: Avoid using postal address in license.
Package: grep;
Reported by: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@HIDDEN>; 311 days old.
- #74788: Incorrect return value for SIGPIPE case
Package: grep;
Reported by: Sachin T <sachintu47@HIDDEN>; 211 days old.
- #75796: Very inefficient use of --color escape sequences
Package: grep;
Reported by: Peter White <peter.white@HIDDEN>; 168 days old.
- #76291: BUG: grep sometimes spits out random garbage in the moddle of results
Package: grep;
Reported by: php fan <php4fan@HIDDEN>; 146 days old.
- #77613: grep-3.11.69-a4628 on GNU/Hurd
Package: grep;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 94 days old.
- #77654: fix module name in bootstrap.conf
Package: grep;
Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 93 days old.
- #78439: Accent insensitive grep
Package: grep;
Reported by: "Avid Seeker" <avidseeker@HIDDEN>; 57 days old.
- #78677: RegEx error
Package: grep;
Reported by: DANIL10RUS <danilleontevkek2akk@HIDDEN>; 38 days old.
- #78891: Option to make grep always exit with 0
Package: grep;
Reported by: Thomas Güttler Mailinglisten <guettliml@HIDDEN>; 16 days old.
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