Unexpected results from grep 2.6.3-1

Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com
Tue Aug 31 01:15:00 GMT 2010


On 08/30/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 01:22:48PM -0700, Robert Ross wrote:
>> With grep 2.6.3-1, the following produces no output:
>>
>> echo "Hello world">  hi
>> /bin/grep --include='*' 'world' *
>>
>> With grep 2.5.4-2, the output is "Hello world".
>
> It does seem strange but, if it's a bug, it's also evident
> on linux.

It's already been reported and fixed upstream:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2010-08/msg00003.html

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