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annotate grep/description.txt @ rev 21726
updated firefox-official (77.0 -> 81.0)
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1 This is GNU grep, the "fastest grep in the west" (we hope). All bugs reported
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2 in previous releases have been fixed. Many exciting new bugs have probably been
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3 introduced in this revision.
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5 GNU grep is provided "as is" with no warranty. The exact terms under which you
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6 may use and (re)distribute this program are detailed in the GNU General Public
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7 License.
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9 GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about twice as
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10 fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper search for a
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11 fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being considered by the full
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12 regexp matcher without necessarily having to look at every character. The
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13 result is typically many times faster than Unix grep or egrep. (Regular
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14 expressions containing backreferencing will run more slowly, however.)
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16 Send bug reports to bug-grep@gnu.org.
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19 KNOWN BUGS:
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21 Several tests in fmbtest.sh and foad1.sh fail under the cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale
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22 and have been disabled.
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24 The combination of -o and -i options is broken and the known failing cases
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25 are disabled in foad1.sh
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27 The option -i does not work properly in some multibyte locales such as
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28 tr_TR.UTF-8 where the upper case and lower case forms of a character are not
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29 necessarily of the same byte length.
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