[bug #17274] grep -Fw gives strange results

[Christoph Bussenius]

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                 Summary: grep -Fw gives strange results
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: betterworld
            Submitted on: Thursday 08/03/2006 at 02:17
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

I've tried the following command on sevaral systems (each had GNU grep-2.5.1
installed):

echo -e 'blah blubb\nb' | grep -Fw b

This printed both lines ("blah blubb\nb") System 1 and System 4, whereas
Systems 2 and 3 did not print anything.  However, in my opinion, the correct
output would have been "b", since this is the only line that contains b as a
word.

echo -e 'DESKTOP\nCDRW DUALXP SATA DE' | grep -Fw DE

This gave the correct output ("CDRW DUALXP SATA DE") on Systems 1 and 4, but
Systems 2 and 3 did not print anything.


Apparently, grep -Fw gets confused when encountering the search string ("b"
or "DE") within a word (like "blah" or "DESKTOP", respectively).  If there
are no words that include the search string as a substring, the output is as
expected.  Also, the output is as expected when you don't use -F.

The systems I tested are:
1: Gentoo Linux, GNU grep 2.5.1
2: Debian Sarge, GNU grep 2.5.1
3: Suse 9.2, GNU grep 2.5.1
4: Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3, GNU grep 2.5.1






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