On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, greg boyd <gboyd.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. )
I asked Greg for the student's name and then added two names to THANKS.in with this:
From da9cf47e2769053576daf1e2998a39bc9885c27d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <meyer...@fb.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 21:00:11 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] maint: update THANKS.in * THANKS.in: Add name+email of those who found and reported the bug that made grep -E '^x|x$' match any "x". --- THANKS.in | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/THANKS.in b/THANKS.in index 624478d..b86f772 100644 --- a/THANKS.in +++ b/THANKS.in @@ -25,12 +25,14 @@ Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com David Clissold cl...@austin.ibm.com David J MacKenzie d...@catapult.va.pubnix.com David O'Brien obr...@freebsd.org +'Drake' Daham Wang drakew...@gmail.com Egmont Koblinger egm...@gmail.com Fernando Basso fernandobasso...@gmail.com Florian La Roche laro...@redhat.com François Pinard pin...@iro.umontreal.ca Gerald Stoller gerald_stol...@hotmail.com Grant McDorman gr...@isgtec.com +Greg Boyd gboyd.c...@gmail.com Greg Louis glo...@dynamicro.on.ca Guglielmo 'bond' Bondioni g.bondi...@libero.it H. Merijn Brand h.m.br...@hccnet.nl -- 2.6.0
