I am unable to confirm this bug. GNU grep 2.5.3 from ftp.gnu.org and from Savannah CVS works fine with -w in that it does not imply -o. I tested this on Mac OS X and Debian under different locales.
If you can reproduce this bug with the CVS or the release version, let me know. Cheers, TAA ----------------------------------------------------- Tony Abou-Assaleh Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web site: http://tony.abou-assaleh.net ----------------------[THE END]---------------------- On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Justin Pryzby wrote: > tag 440342 upstream confirmed > forwarded 440342 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > thanks > > This regression was reported for the new grep upload. > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:43:26AM -0700, Norbert Kiesel wrote: > > Package: grep > > Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-1 > > Severity: important > > > > There is a regression in this grep: a "cat /proc/stat | grep -w cpu" > > only shows the word "cpu" and not the whole line containing that word > > (i.e. it behaves as if I had run "cat /proc/stat | grep -wo cpu"). That > > makes "-w" pretty useless. grep-2.5.1.ds2-6 from Debian stable does not > > have this bug. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
