16 May
2011
16 May
'11
12:05 p.m.
Upstream NEWS: * Noteworthy changes in release 2.8 (2011-05-13) [stable] ** Bug fixes echo c|grep '[c]' would fail for any c in 0x80..0xff, and in many locales. E.g., printf '\xff\n'|grep "$(printf '[\xff]')" || echo FAIL would print FAIL rather than the required matching line. [bug introduced in grep-2.6] grep's interpretation of range expression is now more consistent with that of other tools. [bug present since multi-byte character set support was introduced in 2.5.2, though the steps needed to reproduce it changed in grep-2.6] grep erroneously returned with exit status 1 on some memory allocation failure. [bug present since "the beginning"] Signoff both, Allan