Re: grep bug

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 01:58:51PM -0700, Bill Zaumen wrote:
>       grep -v '[^[:digit:]:.]'

> on a Red Hat 9.0 x86 system.

this is probably a problem in the regex code in glibc.
The bug should disappear if you rebuild grep this way:
        #unpack grep-2.5.1
        ./confiure --prefix=/usr --with-included-regex
        make
        make install # as root

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal