bin/173673: BSD fgrep -v is broken for multi-line pattern
Andrey Chernov
ache at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 17 03:10:00 UTC 2012
>Number: 173673
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: BSD fgrep -v is broken for multi-line pattern
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Nov 17 03:10:00 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Andrey Chernov
>Release: FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #5 r242933: Tue Nov 13 06:04:18 MSK 2012 ache at xxxxxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx:/sys/i386/compile/POBRECITA i386
>Description:
BSD fgrep -v do different things than gnu fgrep for multi-line
pattern. Run following simple test. For BSD fgrep it prints
1
2
3
and for gnu fgrep it correctly prints
3
>How-To-Repeat:
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#!/bin/csh
(echo 1; echo 2; echo 3) | fgrep -v "1\
2"
(echo 1; echo 2; echo 3) | gnugrep -F -v "1\
2"
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>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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