Re: Bug#440342: "grep -w" implies "-o"

[Justin Pryzby]

tag 440342 upstream confirmed
forwarded 440342 address@hidden
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.