Re: Bug#440409: grep -w is broken

[Justin Pryzby]

tag 440409 upstream confirmed
forwarded 440409 address@hidden
forcemerge 440409 439827 439931 440195 440342
thanks

grep -w regression was reported again.

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> Package: grep
> Version: 2.5.3~dfsg-1
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> 
>   grep -w is completely broken as it does not print hits on separate
> lines like it should:
> 
> $ /bin/grep -w p_new *.c
> archive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarchive.c:p_newarray.c:p_newarray.c:p_newblob-iconv.c:p_newbtree.c:p_newbtree.c:p_newconcatbin.c:p_newfarch.c:p_newfifo.c:p_newint_array.c:p_newisndx.c:p_newisndx.c:p_newlog_limit.c:p_newlog_limit.c:p_newlog_limit.c:p_newmem-fifo-pool.c:p_newmmappedfile.c:p_newpaged-index.c:p_newstats-temporal.c:p_newtst-btree.c:p_newtst-isndx.c:p_newxml.c:p_new
> 
> 
>   grep though does the right thing:
> $ /bin/grep p_new *.c
> archive.c:    head = p_new(archive_head, 1);
> archive.c:    file = p_new(archive_file, 1);
> archive.c:        file->attrs = p_new(archive_file_attr *, file->nb_attrs);
> [...]
> 
>   This breaks scripts using grep -w and parsing the output very badly.
>