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Fedora Core 4: 2005-487 Critical: Grep Encoding Fix for Bug #161700

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Ubuntu 20.04 resolves issue #29291 in sed for improved input handling. Essential update for string manipulation tools.
This update fixes a regression in handling 'grep -Fw' for encodings other than UTF-8 (bug #161700).

Summary

The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches

through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified

pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities

include grep, egrep and fgrep.

You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful

utility for searching through text.

Update Information:

This update fixes a regression in handling 'grep -Fw' for encodings other than UTF-8 (bug #161700).

* Tue Jun 28 2005 Tim Waugh 2.5.1-48.2

- Futher fixing for bug #161700.

* Mon Jun 27 2005 Tim Waugh 2.5.1-48.1

- Fix 'grep -Fw' for encodings other than UTF-8 (bug #161700).

* Wed Apr 13 2005 Tim Waugh

- Build requires recent pcre-devel (bug #154626).


This update can be downloaded from:

e40b2fe83f1644f1f20415b47ffc17c5 SRPMS/grep-2.5.1-48.2.src.rpm 65abca2a53be7901241521b3aadd544b ppc/grep-2.5.1-48.2.ppc.rpm 62f327fe9460294513e160374b5946aa ppc/debug/grep-debuginfo-2.5.1-48.2.ppc.rpm c35066cd581fa2431e434caa3c29aef8 x86_64/grep-2.5.1-48.2.x86_64.rpm b2d046027b8c3fde20fafb3e9297d9e4 x86_64/debug/grep-debuginfo-2.5.1-48.2.x86_64.rpm 708be97bebc3db5930c9225d2dfe4ccb i386/grep-2.5.1-48.2.i386.rpm 17209ef397d1c65d2b91704b17f77eec i386/debug/grep-debuginfo-2.5.1-48.2.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date...

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Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2005-487 2005-07-07
Product : Fedora Core 4 Name : grep Version : 2.5.1 =20 Release : 48.2 =20 Summary : The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities. Description : The GNU versions of commonly used grep utilities. Grep searches through textual input for lines which contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. GNU's grep utilities include grep, egrep and fgrep.
You should install grep on your system, because it is a very useful utility for searching through text.

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Product: Fedora Core 4
Name: grep
Version: 2.5.1 =20
Release: 48.2 =20
Summary: The GNU versions of grep pattern matching utilities.

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