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new bug that Paul "asked" for... grep -P aborts on non-utf8 input.

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: "L. A. Walsh" <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 21:42:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "L. A. Walsh" <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 20678 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20678: new bug that Paul "asked" for... grep -P aborts on non-utf8 input.
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 15:04:18 -0700

On 05/27/2015 02:41 PM, L. A. Walsh wrote:
> *** file = libvtkUtilitiesPythonInitializer-pv4.2.so.1
> grep: invalid UTF-8 byte sequence in input 

This looks like you're using an old version of libpcre, or of grep. I 
can't reproduce the problem with the latest stable versions of both 
(libpcre 8.37, grep-2.21).  I can find similar problems if I use old 
libpcre.
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