Your message dated Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:00:35 -0700 with message-id <ca+8g5kgdd3+k9guoz8rmn+cmttv_wuzdb_zttzgj3g-v4qp...@mail.gmail.com> and subject line Re: bug#23965: egrep should report line number when failing to parse a file (with -f) has caused the Debian Bug report #525214, regarding egrep should report line number when failing to parse a file (with -f) to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: grep Version: 2.5.4-4 Severity: normal egrep -f takes its input from a file. This functionality is often used i.e. with logcheck, which works basically off a directory full of files which contain regexes representing log messages to be either ignored or pushed up - However, when something goes bad and one of those lines is not parsable, grep won't help in debugging. As an example, I got loads of log messages such as: From: Cron Daemon <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:02:02 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Cron <logcheck@lafa> if [ -x /usr/sbin/logcheck ]; then nice -n10 /usr/sbin/logcheck; fi egrep: Unmatched [ or [^ Finding the file/line where I made this particular mistake was a tedious job. Users deserve egrep to report the filename and line number where this error happened. Thanks, -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages grep depends on: ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries grep recommends no packages. Versions of packages grep suggests: ii libpcre3 7.8-2 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Santiago Ruano Rincón <[email protected]> wrote: > El 23/07/16 a las 09:31, Jim Meyering escribió: >> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jim Meyering <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Santiago Ruano Rincón >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > … > >> Here are two patches. >> The first adds coreutils' perl-based test harness to grep. >> The second improves those diagnostics and adds a test using the new harness: > > Thanks! > > I will include it in the next grep debian release. Nice. I've added a couple more tests and pushed as http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=f13c169e13aed279baa00d9ced9d93fe24775493
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