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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>; 2309 days old.
• #16979: Strange behavior with "grep --color=auto" with dot in expression
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@HIDDEN>; 2141 days old.
• #18454: Improve performance when -P (PCRE) is used in UTF-8 locales
  Package: grep; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1955 days old.
• #19420: intermittent segfault using grep -P
  Package: grep; Reported by: "J.P. Hendrix" <bug-grep-gnu.org@HIDDEN>; 1856 days old.
• #20768: RFC: Multithreaded grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Zev Weiss <zev@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1686 days old.
• #21461: grep --color can leave terminal in weird state after signal
  Package: grep; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 1591 days old.
• #21513: assertion error in pop_fail_stack
  Package: grep; Reported by: Hanno Böck <hanno@HIDDEN>; 1584 days old.
• #22345: consider upgrade to PCRE2
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 1469 days old.
• #22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@HIDDEN>; 1433 days old.
• #22793: grep -E assertion failure with back references
  Package: grep; Reported by: santiagorr@HIDDEN; merged with #32806, #34238; 1425 days old.
• #24689: Multithreaded grep Available
  Package: grep; Reported by: Aaron Zhou Qian <aaronzhouqian@HIDDEN>; 1192 days old.
• #25027: Grep 2.25 misses lines in semi-large file
  Package: grep; Reported by: Mattias Jiderhamn <mattias.jiderhamn@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 1150 days old.
• #25643: po/Makefile.in.in is missing top_builddir
  Package: grep; Reported by: Max Horn <max@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 1076 days old.
• #26205: Unhappy with deprecating GREP_OPTIONS
  Package: grep; Reported by: Thomas Güttler <guettliml@HIDDEN>; Keywords: wontfix; 1034 days old.
• #26864: Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned in known bugs
  Package: grep; Reported by: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net@HIDDEN>; merged with #36148; 984 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>; 931 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; 888 days old.
• #29446: GNU grep 3.1 fails test suite when PCRE lacks JIT
  Package: grep; Reported by: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@HIDDEN>; 784 days old.
• #29613: Debian Bug#883733: grep returns 0 even if there is no match
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 772 days old.
• #29668: grep: Fatal problem with (big) file
  Package: grep; Reported by: pg <pasi.vitsa@HIDDEN>; 768 days old.
• #32704: Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the same time?
  Package: grep; Reported by: 21naown@HIDDEN; 495 days old.
• #32805: Stack overflow when processing "0?{77}{770}" extended regexp
  Package: grep; Reported by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@HIDDEN>; 484 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; 484 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; 481 days old.
• #33162: Pattern partially greps windows line-endings since 3.1
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Holger Klene" <h.klene@HIDDEN>; merged with #32838; 450 days old.
• #33552: Possible bug with handling -I option
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jason Franklin <jrf@HIDDEN>; 415 days old.
• #34238: Assertion `num >= 0' failed at regexec.c:1363
  Package: grep; Reported by: Hongxu Chen <leftcopy.chx@HIDDEN>; merged with #22793, #32806; 355 days old.
• #35051: Fwd: grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Todd Hoatson <todd.hoatson@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 295 days old.
• #36148: inconsistent behaviour with anchored regex containing back-references
  Package: grep; Reported by: g1pi@HIDDEN; merged with #26864; 224 days old.
• #38690: grep -P quadratic on long lines
  Package: grep; Reported by: Martin Raszyk <m.raszyk@HIDDEN>; 30 days old.
• #38714: 'make dist' fails on grep master (Fedora 31)
  Package: grep; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 27 days old.
• #38792: man grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Martin Simons <martin@HIDDEN>; 21 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; 2196 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; 1809 days old.

Wishlist items - outstanding:

• #15729: "make distclean", "./bootstrap", symlinks, and absolute pathnames
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2275 days old.
• #16812: Eszett handling
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: mathstuf@HIDDEN; 2160 days old.
• #16871: problems about matching newline (with -z)
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@HIDDEN>; 2154 days old.
• #17280: "Untangle" script to lay foundations for refactoring dfa.c
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2103 days old.
• #17381: _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE in dfa.h
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: arnold@HIDDEN; 2089 days old.
• #17512: Valgrind and regression tests?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; 2073 days old.
• #17687: enhancement request: contiguous lines
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: al1chevee@HIDDEN; 2055 days old.
• #17711: Updated "untangle" script: More functional, and resynced with 2.20
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2053 days old.
• #17712: Files created/modified by "untangle" script
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 2053 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; 2019 days old.
• #18071: grep feature request: character mode
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: mark@HIDDEN; 2007 days old.
• #18097: -m breaks -A
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 2005 days old.
• #18406: O_NOATIME patch
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: starlight.2014q3@HIDDEN; Keywords: patch; 1962 days old.
• #19348: grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@HIDDEN>; 1865 days old.
• #20657: Traditional range expression not accepted in regex/dfa
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: arnold@HIDDEN; 1699 days old.
• #20990: RFC: [PATCH] accept new option: --files0-from=F
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; Keywords: wontfix patch; 1658 days old.
• #21865: Parenthesis subexpressions
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Valerio Bozzolan <bozzolan.valerio@HIDDEN>; 1532 days old.
• #22059: grep -E: unexpected behaviour
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Charles <c@HIDDEN>; 1511 days old.
• #23267: suggestion: silently ignore EPIPE errors when SIGPIPE is set to 'ignore'
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN>; 1378 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>; 1342 days old.
• #24382: grep should support -l and -n together
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Mathieu Jobin <somekool@HIDDEN>; 1230 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>; 1147 days old.
• #25146: grep unusable on mingw - SAME_INODE woes
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 1136 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>; 1037 days old.
• #26726: Support grepping multi-lines fixed-strings
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "ziyunfei" <446240525@HIDDEN>; 993 days old.
• #26904: Wishlist: Tell grep to stop when a line matches something else.
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: LA-notifications@HIDDEN; 981 days old.
• #27902: Using -o with -v
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Arseny Sher <sher-ars@HIDDEN>; 901 days old.
• #28081: way to change line number separator from colon to space?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 889 days old.
• #28304: Feature Request - Quit on Non Match
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Adam Danischewski <adam.danischewski@HIDDEN>; 871 days old.
• #28306: grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 871 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>; 740 days old.
• #30372: context word control
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 711 days old.
• #30535: Output buffer overwritten when CR in file
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Wayne Gemmell <wayne@HIDDEN>; merged with #30652; 699 days old.
• #30643: Mention . won't match illegal characters
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 690 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; 690 days old.
• #31071: Previous color lost when using --color=always option
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Adrian H <adrianh.bsc@HIDDEN>; 653 days old.
• #31537: Combining -v and -A/-B/-C options
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; 609 days old.
• #32073: Improvements in Grep
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Sergiu Hlihor <sh@HIDDEN>; 561 days old.
• #34288: Mention how to trigger ':' without filemane
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 351 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>; 295 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>; 274 days old.
• #35339: Say what buffering is not --line-buffered
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 274 days old.
• #35626: Beef up "conflicting matchers specified" error message
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 256 days old.
• #36612: Expand "no" options
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@HIDDEN>; 191 days old.
• #37607: How to use Grep with Using -o
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Matt Zand <mahdiumd@HIDDEN>; 108 days old.
• #37753: wish for glob(7)-like matcher
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@HIDDEN>; 96 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>; 96 days old.

Normal bugs - resolved:

• #26132: man grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: kalle <kalle@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #27255: wrong translation
  Package: grep; Reported by: Алексей Саликов <salikov.alexey@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #27666: [grep on GPFS filesystem] SEEK_HOLE problem
  Package: grep; Reported by: Moyard John <John.Moyard@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #27681: grep: Combining Mark-Nonspacing are classified as [:punct:]
  Package: grep; Reported by: Santiago <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #27730: --exclude-dir does ignore subdirectory
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jiří Kozlovský <mail@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #27763: egrep.sh: grep missing path
  Package: grep; Reported by: Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #28255: grep erroneously skips Microsoft UTF-8 text files as being binary
  Package: grep; Reported by: Simon <ixlr82c@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #28469: xargs arguments are not passed to grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Sergiu Bordei <sergiu.bordei@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #29032: grep 3.x: 2.4MB big file causes 'Value too large for defined data type'
  Package: grep; Reported by: uwe.sauter.de@HIDDEN; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #29297: linux grep question, please help us to see, thank you
  Package: grep; Reported by: Yufuping <fuping.yu@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #29354: GREP_OPTIONS not processed
  Package: grep; Reported by: Dennis <grep+user@HIDDEN>; Keywords: unreproducible; merged with #29778; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #29778: grep seems to ignore GREP_OPTIONS
  Package: grep; Reported by: Dennis <grep+user@HIDDEN>; Keywords: unreproducible; merged with #29354; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #30451: I found problem not solved to my grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Budi <budikusasi@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #30525: Unexpected matches for input data from a patch file
  Package: grep; Reported by: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #30713: maybe a bug report, please check(ScanMail has removed a file)
  Package: grep; Reported by: Maik.Brenke@HIDDEN; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #31182: Grep Not Matching with Caret in First Line of File
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Budin, Clay" <Clay.Budin@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #31228: Update GREP manpage
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Laura Morales" <lauretas@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #31705: five grep / egrep issues
  Package: grep; Reported by: Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #32943: grep pattern < fifo fails on Cygwin (and MinGW), but not on Linux
  Package: grep; Reported by: Houder <houder@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33062: grep matches too lazily when invoked with -zoP and matching backreference followed by newline
  Package: grep; Reported by: Johannes Riecken <johannes.riecken@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33218: Updated dfa.c: unused function charclass_context
  Package: grep; Reported by: Arnold Robbins <arnold@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33249: [PATCH] grep: grouping of patterns including back reference
  Package: grep; Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33291: "blank" character class not documented
  Package: grep; Reported by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33418: Convert from literal string to ERE?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33574: grep -c question
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Helen Grubner" <helen.grubner@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33699: Multi-component paths ignored by --{exclude,include}-dir ?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Lyude Paul <lyude@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33837: Unexpected result for regex with non-ascii range
  Package: grep; Reported by: Reinis Danne <rei4dan@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #33972: grep -vf <(<nothing>) filters all rows
  Package: grep; Reported by: luke@HIDDEN; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #34078: typo in gnu grep's manual ?
  Package: grep; Reported by: phs@HIDDEN; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #34339: Implementation of Gnu Grep 3.X for Microsoft Windows?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #34370: grep 3.3 spurious testsuite failure
  Package: grep; Reported by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #34801: "make check" of grep 3.1 "backref-alt" was passed
  Package: grep; Reported by: William Li <qq1450377985@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #35077: grep bug?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Todd Hoatson <todd.hoatson@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #35681: grep's ./configure doesn't work with plain /bin/sh
  Package: grep; Reported by: Miro Kropáček <miro.kropacek@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #36367: Potential bug in grep / egrep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Henrik Holst <henrik.holst@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #36815: dfa up to date?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Arnold Robbins <arnold@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #36960: mistake with v param
  Package: grep; Reported by: Daniele Grassini <danielegrassini@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #37212: Incorrect --exclude description with 'grep --help'
  Package: grep; Reported by: Duncan Moore <duncan.moore@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.
• #38322: GCC optimize levels makes huge impact on performance
  Package: grep; Reported by: Balázs Vinarz <vinibali1@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.

Wishlist items - resolved:

• #38841: Enhancement request: Make show_help a bool
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Emil Engler <me@HIDDEN>; Done: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>.