Re: bug in grep regarding

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Vijay Seshadri <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 15:46:16 -0700
> 
> Bug report for GNU grep:
> 1. grep version number: 2.4.2
> 2. No patches made(used the binary)
> 3.  Machine type, OS etc: Redhat Linux 7.1, Pentium III 996Mhz single 
> processor, Linux kernel 2.4.4-2
> 4.  No compiling done, used binary directly
> 5. grep -E '[]mz]' test.c
> 
> where test.c was
> 
> int main()
> {
>    fprintf(stdout,"This [goes to standard out\n");
>    fprintf(stderr,"This ]goes to standard error\n");
>    fprintf(stderr,"This -goes to standard error\n");
>    fprintf(stderr,"This ^goes to standard error\n");
> }
> 
> OutPut seen:
> 
> int main()
> 
> Output expected:
> 
> int main()
>        fprintf(stderr,"This ]goes to standard error\n");

Works for me as expected in Grep 2.4.  Perhaps that's some bug
introduced in v2.4.2 (I never liked the idea of having alpha versions
distributed with a shrink-wrapped OS).  Or maybe you have some
locale-dependent setting which changes how character classes match.