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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>; 1903 days old.
• #16979: Strange behavior with "grep --color=auto" with dot in expression
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peter Maloney <peter.maloney@HIDDEN>; 1735 days old.
• #18454: Improve performance when -P (PCRE) is used in UTF-8 locales
  Package: grep; Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@HIDDEN>; 1549 days old.
• #19420: intermittent segfault using grep -P
  Package: grep; Reported by: "J.P. Hendrix" <bug-grep-gnu.org@HIDDEN>; 1450 days old.
• #20768: RFC: Multithreaded grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Zev Weiss <zev@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 1280 days old.
• #21461: grep --color can leave terminal in weird state after signal
  Package: grep; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 1185 days old.
• #21513: assertion error in pop_fail_stack
  Package: grep; Reported by: Hanno Böck <hanno@HIDDEN>; 1178 days old.
• #22345: consider upgrade to PCRE2
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; 1063 days old.
• #22702: [bug-grep] grep-2.23 build feedback
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@HIDDEN>; 1027 days old.
• #22793: grep -E assertion failure with back references
  Package: grep; Reported by: santiagorr@HIDDEN; merged with #32806; 1019 days old.
• #24689: Multithreaded grep Available
  Package: grep; Reported by: Aaron Zhou Qian <aaronzhouqian@HIDDEN>; 786 days old.
• #25027: Grep 2.25 misses lines in semi-large file
  Package: grep; Reported by: Mattias Jiderhamn <mattias.jiderhamn@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 744 days old.
• #25643: po/Makefile.in.in is missing top_builddir
  Package: grep; Reported by: Max Horn <max@HIDDEN>; Keywords: moreinfo; 670 days old.
• #25707: [PATCH] grep: don't forcefully strip carriage returns
  Package: grep; Reported by: Eric Blake <eblake@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 664 days old.
• #26132: man grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: kalle <kalle@HIDDEN>; 633 days old.
• #26205: Unhappy with deprecating GREP_OPTIONS
  Package: grep; Reported by: Thomas Güttler <guettliml@HIDDEN>; Keywords: wontfix; 628 days old.
• #26864: Clarification on obscure regular expressions mentioned in known bugs
  Package: grep; Reported by: Sundeep Agarwal <learnbyexample.net@HIDDEN>; 578 days old.
• #27255: wrong translation
  Package: grep; Reported by: Алексей Саликов <salikov.alexey@HIDDEN>; 552 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>; 525 days old.
• #27666: [grep on GPFS filesystem] SEEK_HOLE problem
  Package: grep; Reported by: Moyard John <John.Moyard@HIDDEN>; 515 days old.
• #27681: grep: Combining Mark-Nonspacing are classified as [:punct:]
  Package: grep; Reported by: Santiago <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 514 days old.
• #27730: --exclude-dir does ignore subdirectory
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jiří Kozlovský <mail@HIDDEN>; 510 days old.
• #27763: egrep.sh: grep missing path
  Package: grep; Reported by: Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 508 days old.
• #27902: Using -o with -v
  Package: grep; Reported by: Arseny Sher <sher-ars@HIDDEN>; 495 days old.
• #28081: way to change line number separator from colon to space?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Marcel Partap <mpartap@HIDDEN>; 483 days old.
• #28083: Two patches for grep on Windows, fixing directory recursion and leaking color
  Package: grep; Reported by: Stephan Lavavej <stl@HIDDEN>; 483 days old.
• #28102: Bug when using the --color option
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jason P Thurman <jason.thurman@HIDDEN>; 481 days old.
• #28255: grep erroneously skips Microsoft UTF-8 text files as being binary
  Package: grep; Reported by: Simon <ixlr82c@HIDDEN>; 469 days old.
• #28306: grep: option to filter non-printable characters from contents
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 465 days old.
• #28469: xargs arguments are not passed to grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Sergiu Bordei <sergiu.bordei@HIDDEN>; 450 days old.
• #29032: grep 3.x: 2.4MB big file causes 'Value too large for defined data type'
  Package: grep; Reported by: uwe.sauter.de@HIDDEN; 408 days old.
• #29124: [PATCH] grep: simplify out_file handling
  Package: grep; Reported by: Zev Weiss <zev@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 401 days old.
• #29297: linux grep question, please help us to see, thank you
  Package: grep; Reported by: Yufuping <fuping.yu@HIDDEN>; 390 days old.
• #29354: GREP_OPTIONS not processed
  Package: grep; Reported by: Dennis <grep+user@HIDDEN>; 385 days old.
• #29446: GNU grep 3.1 fails test suite when PCRE lacks JIT
  Package: grep; Reported by: "A. Wilcox" <awilfox@HIDDEN>; 379 days old.
• #29613: Debian Bug#883733: grep returns 0 even if there is no match
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Santiago R.R." <santiagorr@HIDDEN>; 366 days old.
• #29668: grep: Fatal problem with (big) file
  Package: grep; Reported by: pg <pasi.vitsa@HIDDEN>; 363 days old.
• #29778: grep seems to ignore GREP_OPTIONS
  Package: grep; Reported by: Dennis <grep+user@HIDDEN>; 354 days old.
• #30033: `grep --fixed-strings --regexp=…` is an annoying syntax → Introduce --pattern=… option
  Package: grep; Reported by: "H.-Dirk Schmitt" <admin@HIDDEN>; 335 days old.
• #30372: context word control
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 306 days old.
• #30451: I found problem not solved to my grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Budi <budikusasi@HIDDEN>; 298 days old.
• #30525: Unexpected matches for input data from a patch file
  Package: grep; Reported by: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@HIDDEN>; 293 days old.
• #30535: Output buffer overwritten when CR in file
  Package: grep; Reported by: Wayne Gemmell <wayne@HIDDEN>; 293 days old.
• #30643: Mention . won't match illegal characters
  Package: grep; Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@HIDDEN>; 284 days old.
• #30652: Empty lines when using color and searching through files with DOS newline
  Package: grep; Reported by: DrSlony <entertheyoni@HIDDEN>; 284 days old.
• #30713: maybe a bug report, please check(ScanMail has removed a file)
  Package: grep; Reported by: Maik.Brenke@HIDDEN; 279 days old.
• #31071: Previous color lost when using --color=always option
  Package: grep; Reported by: Adrian H <adrianh.bsc@HIDDEN>; 248 days old.
• #31182: Grep Not Matching with Caret in First Line of File
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Budin, Clay" <Clay.Budin@HIDDEN>; 237 days old.
• #31228: Update GREP manpage
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Laura Morales" <lauretas@HIDDEN>; 233 days old.
• #31537: Combining -v and -A/-B/-C options
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Garreau\, Alexandre" <galex-713@HIDDEN>; 203 days old.
• #31705: five grep / egrep issues
  Package: grep; Reported by: Phillip Feldman <phillip.m.feldman@HIDDEN>; 188 days old.
• #32073: Improvements in Grep
  Package: grep; Reported by: Sergiu Hlihor <sh@HIDDEN>; 156 days old.
• #32704: Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the same time?
  Package: grep; Reported by: 21naown@HIDDEN; 89 days old.
• #32805: Stack overflow when processing "0?{77}{770}" extended regexp
  Package: grep; Reported by: Anatoly Trosinenko <anatoly.trosinenko@HIDDEN>; 78 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; 78 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>; 75 days old.
• #32943: grep pattern < fifo fails on Cygwin (and MinGW), but not on Linux
  Package: grep; Reported by: Houder <houder@HIDDEN>; 65 days old.
• #33062: grep matches too lazily when invoked with -zoP and matching backreference followed by newline
  Package: grep; Reported by: Johannes Riecken <johannes.riecken@HIDDEN>; 54 days old.
• #33116: [PATCH 1/6] dfa: remove unneeded code
  Package: grep; Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 48 days old.
• #33162: Pattern partially greps windows line-endings since 3.1
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Holger Klene" <h.klene@HIDDEN>; 44 days old.
• #33218: Updated dfa.c: unused function charclass_context
  Package: grep; Reported by: Arnold Robbins <arnold@HIDDEN>; 39 days old.
• #33249: [PATCH] grep: grouping of patterns including back reference
  Package: grep; Reported by: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk@HIDDEN>; Keywords: patch; 36 days old.
• #33291: "blank" character class not documented
  Package: grep; Reported by: Steven Penny <svnpenn@HIDDEN>; 33 days old.
• #33418: Convert from literal string to ERE?
  Package: grep; Reported by: Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@HIDDEN>; 21 days old.
• #33552: Possible bug with handling -I option
  Package: grep; Reported by: Jason Franklin <jrf@HIDDEN>; 10 days old.
• #33574: grep -c question
  Package: grep; Reported by: "Helen Grubner" <helen.grubner@HIDDEN>; 7 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; 1790 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; 1403 days old.

Wishlist items - outstanding:

• #15729: "make distclean", "./bootstrap", symlinks, and absolute pathnames
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 1869 days old.
• #16812: Eszett handling
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: mathstuf@HIDDEN; 1754 days old.
• #16871: problems about matching newline (with -z)
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@HIDDEN>; 1748 days old.
• #17280: "Untangle" script to lay foundations for refactoring dfa.c
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 1697 days old.
• #17381: _GL_ATTRIBUTE_PURE in dfa.h
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: arnold@HIDDEN; 1683 days old.
• #17512: Valgrind and regression tests?
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; Keywords: notabug; 1668 days old.
• #17687: enhancement request: contiguous lines
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: al1chevee@HIDDEN; 1649 days old.
• #17711: Updated "untangle" script: More functional, and resynced with 2.20
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 1647 days old.
• #17712: Files created/modified by "untangle" script
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: behoffski <behoffski@HIDDEN>; 1647 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; 1614 days old.
• #18071: grep feature request: character mode
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: mark@HIDDEN; 1602 days old.
• #18097: -m breaks -A
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN>; 1599 days old.
• #18406: O_NOATIME patch
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: starlight.2014q3@HIDDEN; Keywords: patch; 1557 days old.
• #19348: grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@HIDDEN>; 1459 days old.
• #20657: Traditional range expression not accepted in regex/dfa
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: arnold@HIDDEN; 1293 days old.
• #20990: RFC: [PATCH] accept new option: --files0-from=F
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim@HIDDEN>; Keywords: wontfix patch; 1252 days old.
• #21865: Parenthesis subexpressions
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Valerio Bozzolan <bozzolan.valerio@HIDDEN>; 1127 days old.
• #22059: grep -E: unexpected behaviour
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Charles <c@HIDDEN>; 1105 days old.
• #23267: suggestion: silently ignore EPIPE errors when SIGPIPE is set to 'ignore'
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon@HIDDEN>; 972 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>; 936 days old.
• #24382: grep should support -l and -n together
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Mathieu Jobin <somekool@HIDDEN>; 824 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>; 741 days old.
• #25146: grep unusable on mingw - SAME_INODE woes
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Bruno Haible <bruno@HIDDEN>; 730 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>; 632 days old.
• #26726: Support grepping multi-lines fixed-strings
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: "ziyunfei" <446240525@HIDDEN>; 587 days old.
• #26904: Wishlist: Tell grep to stop when a line matches something else.
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: LA-notifications@HIDDEN; 575 days old.
• #28304: Feature Request - Quit on Non Match
  Package: grep; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Adam Danischewski <adam.danischewski@HIDDEN>; 465 days old.