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From: Senthil Kumar <kksenthilkumar79 <at> gmail.com>
To: 17086 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17086: Reg : Bug in Grep command
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 19:10:53 +0530

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Dear Person,

I have found a bug in the below environment and using grep along with REGEX.

*My aim*: To search a names having "Mr.*" and "Mrs.*" in f1.dat file

$ cat /etc/*-release
Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Carthage)
Oracle Linux Server release 5.8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.8 (Tikanga)

*$ cat f1.dat*
*Output:*
MRavi
Mr.Kumar
Mrs.Linda
Mrs.Lily
Mr.Gul
Mr.Tent
Mrs.Forrest
Mr.Hammer

*$ grep -r "Mr.*" f1.dat*
*Output:*
Mr.Kumar
Mrs.Linda
Mrs.Lily
Mr.Gul
Mr.Tent
Mrs.Forrest
Mr.Hammer

*$ grep -r "Mrs.*" f1.dat*
*Output:*
Mrs.Linda
Mrs.Lily
Mrs.Forrest

I see the command (*$ grep -r "Mr.*" f1.dat*) is getting retrieved all
names having both

*Mr. and Mrs.*
please do let me know is this defect ? Hoping to get an revert mail on this.

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* Thanks & Regards,KK Senthil Kumar*

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