On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Mirraz Mirraz wrote: >>> >>> After updating from 2.14 to 2.15 grep has started to fail to match patterns >>> that contain '\s*' or '\s\+' >>> For example: >>> >>> (grep-2.14) >>> $ echo '[ ]' | grep '\s*' >>> [ ] >>> $ >>> >>> (grep-2.15) >>> $ echo '[ ]' | grep '\s*' >>> $ >> >> Thank you for the report. >> That is clearly a regression. That is now the most compelling (of 3) >> reasons to make a new release. > > Here's a preliminary patch. > I'm about to write the test suite additions to accompany it: And here's a proper patch, including NEWS and test suite additions: