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Bug 116909

Summary:	fgrep gives false negatives
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component:	grep	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	2.5.1-26	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2004-02-27 23:15:04 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	114963, 479150

Description Tim Waugh 2004-02-26 11:31:08 UTC

Description of problem:
fgrep fails to report some matches.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.5.1-25 (happens in 2.5.1-16 too)

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:

cat >a <<EOF
a
b
c
EOF
cat >b <<EOF
a
barn
c
EOF
fgrep -w -f a b

Actual results:
a

Expected results:
a
c

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-02-26 11:31:29 UTC

Might be the cause of bug #97526.

Comment 3 Dennis Gregorovic 2005-05-20 03:25:55 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2005-449.html