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bug#33062: grep matches too lazily when invoked with -zoP and matching b
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Bernhard Voelker |
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bug#33062: grep matches too lazily when invoked with -zoP and matching backreference followed by newline |
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Date: |
Wed, 24 Oct 2018 01:16:57 +0200 |
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reassign 33062 grep
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On 10/16/18 2:55 PM, Johannes Riecken wrote:
> Dear maintainers:
>
> *Bug summary: *GNU grep 3.0-2 matches too lazily when invoked with -zoP and
> matching backreference followed by newline
>
> *Steps to reproduce:*
>
> Create file cases:
>
> foo
> bar
> cases:
> 1: foo
> 2: bar
> baz
> cases:
> 3: baz
> quux
>
> And run grep -zoP '(\s*)cases:\n(\1.*\n)*' cases
>
> *Expected output:*
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> cases:
> 1: foo
> 2: bar
> cases:
> 3: baz
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> * Actual output:*
>
> cases:
>
> cases:
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> Best regards,
>
> Johannes Riecken
Thanks for the report, however, you reached the GNU coreutils mailing list,
while your report is for 'grep'.
I'm therefore reassigning this issue to the GNU 'grep' package.
Have a nice day,
Berny