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Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern. By default, grep prints the matching lines.
Registration Date: Thu 15 Feb 2001 05:53:10 PM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: 6 - Mature
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posted by meyering, Thu 10 Apr 2025 05:04:24 PM UTC
[...]This is to announce grep-3.12, a stable release.
It's been nearly two years! There have been two bug fixes and many
posted by meyering, Sat 13 May 2023 09:16:55 AM UTC
[...]This is to announce grep-3.11, a stable release.
This release makes PCRE patterns like [\d] work again, at the expense of
reverting to the behavior of grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w and \b go
back to using ASCII rather than Unicode interpretations. However, if you
posted by meyering, Thu 23 Mar 2023 01:31:26 AM UTC
[...]This is to announce grep-3.10, a stable release,
fixing a bug with -P and \d. TL;DR, grep-3.9 would do this:
$ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 grep -P '\d' <<< ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩
It should print nothing, like it has always done.
posted by meyering, Sun 05 Mar 2023 04:09:34 PM UTC
[...]This is to announce grep-3.9, a stable release.
The NEWS below describes the two main bug fixes since 3.8.
There have been 38 commits by 4 people in the 26 weeks since 3.8.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
The following people contributed changes to this release:
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