Your message dated Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:06:12 +1000
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and subject line Re: Bug#577095: grep: bracket expressions fails depending on
the locale
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regarding grep: bracket expressions fails depending on the locale
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Package: grep
Version: 2.6.3-1
Severity: grave
As this issue might affact a lot of cases where grep is used, I've
decided to file it with the severity grave.
Since version 2.6.3 (and it seems also 2.5.2 was affected), the
behaviour of grep regarding capital letters in bracket expressions
changed when using UTF8:
With grep 2.6.3:
b...@think ~% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd | wc -l
51
b...@think ~% LANG=C grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd
Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
b...@think ~% LANG=de_DE.iso8859-15 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd
Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
With grep 2.5.4-4:
b...@think ~% LANG=en_US.UTF-8 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd
Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
b...@think ~% LANG=C grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd
Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
b...@think ~% LANG=de_DE.iso8859-15 grep -E '^[A-Z]' /etc/passwd
Debian-exim:x:100:103::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
This behaviour change is not expected and different from what other
implementations do.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-think (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
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 dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in
ii libc6 2.10.2-6 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
grep recommends no packages.
Versions of packages grep suggests:
ii libpcre3 7.8-3 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2.6.3-1
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:54:51PM +0900, Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I seem that is expected behavior. [A-Z] includes A,b,B,c,C,...y,Y,z,Z
>in en_US locale (not include `a').
Right. Closing this bug report accordingly.
grep -E '^[[:upper:]]' /etc/passwd
You could use the command above.
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