bug#58502: We should not deprecate egrep and fgrep

2022-10-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
NU extension, > even though POSIX itself points out that egrep and fgrep are around to > not break old scripts. grep -P, with PCRE support, isn't POSIX either, > so there's precedent to extend GNU grep beyond what POSIX mandates. > > -- Sam > > On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 3:00 PM Shlo

bug#58502: We should not deprecate egrep and fgrep

2022-10-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
ality, nobody actually realised it was "obsolescent" > and in fact actively using it in new scripts. > > Really, speaking from my perspective, distribution maintainers have > got enough going on with various fires (Clang 16, OpenSSL 3, > time64 migration, ...) that handli

bug#43863: [PATCH] grep: remove unusable code

2020-10-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi! On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 16:02:53 +0900 Norihiro Tanaka wrote: > On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 12:53:47 +0300 > Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > Hi Norihiro Tanaka! > > > > On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 18:55:50 +0900 > > Norihiro Tanaka wrote: > > Thanks, not 'unusable' but 'u

bug#43863: [PATCH] grep: remove unusable code

2020-10-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
re > removed in commit 016e590a8198009bce0e1078f6d4c7e037e2df3c. Do you mean the code is "unusable" (= "cannot be used"; https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unusable ) or is it "unused" (= "not being used": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unused )? -- Shlom

bug#43040: grep 3.4: memory leak

2020-09-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
patch is a bit of a hack > but does the real work; the rest are merely cleanups or very minor > performance improvements. Thanks, Paul! I can confirm that the latest git master version of gnu grep (which incorporates the patches) is faster than 3.4. -- Shlomi Fish https://www.sh

bug#43040: grep 3.4: memory leak

2020-09-01 Thread Shlomi Fish
16,158 blocks > ==156624== possibly lost: 25,830 bytes in 13 blocks > ==156624==still reachable: 3,751,973,767 bytes in 43,402 blocks > ==156624== of which reachable via heuristic: > ==156624== newarray : 112 bytes in 1 > block

bug#42762: GREP does not support Unicode

2020-08-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
time options or tweak the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable -s. Also see https://beyondgrep.com/ . > Kind regards > > -Original Message- > From: Shlomi Fish > Sent: Saturday, August 8, 2020 17:16 > To: ca...@kwpg.info > Cc: 42...@debbugs.gnu.org >

bug#42762: GREP does not support Unicode

2020-08-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux shlomif[homepage]:$trunk$ » note that "שלום" is the hebrew spelling of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom . Regards, Shlomi Fish > I am using version Git for Windows v2.25.0 > > Kind regards > > > > > -- Shlomi Fish ht

bug#41262: Weird behavior with grep regex

2020-05-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
> As emails may be altered, Orange is not liable for messages that have been > modified, changed or falsified. Thank you. > Ahem :( -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ Knuth is not God! Typing “God” into Google and pr

bug#40868: Grep C library for multi-string pattern matching?

2020-04-27 Thread Shlomi Fish
Furthermore, you may wish to look at FOSS grep-like tools: * https://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDgrep * https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher * https://beyondgrep.com/more-tools/ > Thanks in advance. > > > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Let’s talk ab

bug#35077: grep bug?

2019-04-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
am I doing > something wrong? > > thanks, > Todd Hoatson -- ----- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/New-versions-of-the-GPL/ HP/UX is not a UNIX, and AIX is even less of it than that. — An Israeli Open So

bug#26904: Wishlist: Tell grep to stop when a line matches something else.

2017-05-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
rching for 'foo'. It would > help me out a lot when searching for things in my perl modules where I > do not want my perl pod searched. > It may be out of the scope of GNU grep, but should be doable in perl -ln or sed. E.g (untested): perl -ln -E '/bar/?exit:/foo/?say:0' Regards,

bug#23844: broken: randomly detexts textf files as binary

2016-06-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
the meanwhile, you can try passing the --ascii flag, or using one of http://beyondgrep.com/ or http://beyondgrep.com/more-tools/ . Regards, Shlomi Fish > This is a critical issue that renders grep completely unusable. > It was said to be fixed upstream but then the

bug#23185: GNU grep matching discrepancy between -a/--text and not.

2016-04-02 Thread Shlomi Fish
. I'm on Mageia linux x86-64 v6 and have built GNU grep from the latest git commit ( c767ed70eca9a82d76f07dcdbcaafa21ec7f86d6 ) to test. Regards, Shlomi Fish P.S: it seems the build system uses gperf but configure does not verify that it exists in the path

bug#22899: new snapshot available: grep-2.23.7-9e28

2016-03-04 Thread Shlomi Fish
# XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 on Mageia Linux x86-64 v6/Cauldron. Is there anything else that I can do for you? Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----- S

bug#21755: new snapshot available: grep-2.21.82-fbc5

2015-10-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
9 # XFAIL: 0 # FAIL: 0 # XPASS: 0 # ERROR: 0 ======== Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Changes in gnulib since 2.21.78-7da30: > > * gnulib 5513b40...956fa54 (50): > > stdalign: port to Sun C 5.9 > > autoupdate > > update from texinfo > &

bug#21670: surprising bug in grep -e with anchors

2015-10-12 Thread Shlomi Fish
ther patch, to help prevent this bug from coming > back in a future version. thanks to greg, to greg's student, and to Paul for their contributions! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Perl Hu

bug#18806: grep -rP getline crashes prematurely (without displaying all results) on invalid UTF-8 input with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

2014-10-25 Thread Shlomi Fish
effect in comparison with your patch, even if `execute' ran for each character. Thank you both for the fix. ♥! Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Optimising Code for Speed - http

bug#18806: grep -rP getline crashes prematurely (without displaying all results) on invalid UTF-8 input with LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

2014-10-23 Thread Shlomi Fish
/round_robin.t:while (my $line = $io-getline || $io-getlinegrep: internal PCRE error: -32 with the latest git grep. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ UNIX Fortune Cookies - http

bug#16499: GNU grep-2.16-1.mga4 , grep-2.16 from sources and grep from git master HEAD get stuck during an LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 search inside a short binary file

2014-01-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
/libpcre.so.1 lib64pcre1-8.33-2.mga4 Regards, Shlomi Fish -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Humanity - Parody of Modern Life - http://shlom.in/humanity Linux — Because Software Problems Should not Cost Money. Please

[bug #13847] memchr() not checked on Pexecute() - leads to segfault

2005-07-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitemitem_id=13847 Summary: memchr() not checked on Pexecute() - leads to segfault Project: grep Submitted by: shlomif Submitted on: Tue 07/19/2005 at 07:57 Category: None