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surprising bug in grep -e with anchors

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21670: closed (surprising bug in grep -e with anchors)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 04:35:02 +0000

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and subject line Re: bug#21670: surprising bug in grep -e with anchors
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #21670,
regarding surprising bug in grep -e with anchors
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From: greg boyd <gboyd.ccsf <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org, greg boyd <gboyd.ccsf <at> gmail.com>
Subject: surprising bug in grep -e with anchors
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 14:01:07 -0700

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This bug appears in GNU grep version 2.20. It is not present in the older
version I have installed on a home system (2.6.3.)

test case (single line)
abchelloabc

grep does not find the line with grep -e '^hello'  nor with grep -e 'hello$'
however, the line is output with
grep -e '^hello' -e 'hello$'

I downloaded, built and tested the bug on GNU grep 2.21 and it still
appears.

weird.

(this was found by an introductory Linux student. )

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: greg boyd <gboyd.ccsf <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>, 21670-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21670: surprising bug in grep -e with anchors
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 21:34:05 -0700

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greg boyd wrote:
> test case (single line)
> abchelloabc
>
> grep does not find the line with grep -e '^hello'  nor with grep -e 'hello$'
> however, the line is output with
> grep -e '^hello' -e 'hello$'

Oooo, that's a good one.  Give your student extra credit!  As it happens, the 
bug was recently fixed by this patch by Norihiro Tanaka:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=256a4b494fe1c48083ba73b4f62607234e4fefd5

and the fix should appear in the next grep release.  However, since the patch 
was supposed to affect only performance, it appears that the bug fix was due to 
luck, and I'm taking the liberty of adding your student's test case by 
installing the attached further patch, to help prevent this bug from coming back 
in a future version.

[0001-tests-add-test-case-for-Bug-21670.patch (text/plain, attachment)]

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