Bug 10973

Summary:	grep -o option is buggy in conjunction with anchors
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	at <at>
Component:	grep	Assignee:	placeholder <placeholder>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P2	CC:	evg, glebfm, ldv, placeholder, vt
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description at@altlinux.org 2007-03-01 18:17:43 MSK

$ echo asdf |grep -o '^..'
as
df
$

Expected result:
as

Comment 1 Dmitry V. Levin 2007-04-15 01:00:06 MSD

grep.c prline() only_matching algorithm is clearly broken wrt anchors.

Comment 2 Dmitry V. Levin 2010-09-20 21:48:10 MSD

In grep-2.6.3-alt1 the bug is already fixed.