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Info</div> <div class="boxitem"><span class="smaller">Group Admins:</span></div> <ul class='group-page-admins'> <li><div class="boxitemalt"><span class="smaller"><a href="/users/meyering">Jim Meyering</a></span></div> </li> <li><div class="boxitem"><span class="smaller"><a href="/users/veltzer">Mark Veltzer</a></span></div> </li> </ul> <div class="boxitemalt"><span class="smaller"><b>9</b> active members</span></div> <div class="boxitem"><span class="smaller">[<a href="/project/memberlist.php?group=grep">View Members</a>]</span></div> </div> <br /> <div class="box"> <div class='boxtitle'>Group identification</div> <div class="boxitemalt"><span class="smaller">Id: <b>67</b></span></div> <div class="boxitem"><span class="smaller">System Name: <b>grep</b></span></div> <div class="boxitemalt"><span class="smaller">Name: <b>grep</b></span></div> <div class="boxitem"><span class="smaller">Group Type: <b>Official GNU software</b></span></div> </div> <br /> <div class="box"> <div 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By default, grep prints the matching lines.</p> <p>Registration Date: Thu 15 Feb 2001 05:53:10 PM UTC <br /> License: <a href="//www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU General Public License v2 or later</a><br /> Development Status: 6 - Mature </p> </div> <p class='clearr'> </p> <div class='splitright'><div class="box"> <div class='boxtitle'>Latest News <a href='/news/atom.php?group=grep' class='inline-link'><img alt='rss feed' src='/images/common/feed16.png' /></a></div> <div class='boxitem'><a href="/news/?id=10364"><b>grep-3.11 released [stable]</b></a><br />      <span class="smaller"><em>posted by <a href="/users/meyering">meyering</a>, Sat 13 May 2023 09:16:55 AM UTC</em></span> <p><br /> </p> <blockquote class='verbatim'><p> This is to announce grep-3.11, a stable release.<br /> <br /> This release makes PCRE patterns like [\d] work again, at the expense of<br /> reverting to the behavior of grep 3.8, in that patterns like \w and \b go<br /> back to using ASCII rather than Unicode interpretations.  However, if you<br /> </p></blockquote> <a href="/news/?id=10364">[...]</a> </div><div class="boxitemalt"><a href="/news/?id=10336"><b>grep-3.10 released [stable]</b></a><br />      <span class="smaller"><em>posted by <a href="/users/meyering">meyering</a>, Thu 23 Mar 2023 01:31:26 AM UTC</em></span> <p><br /> </p> <blockquote class='verbatim'><p> This is to announce grep-3.10, a stable release,<br /> fixing a bug with -P and \d. TL;DR, grep-3.9 would do this:<br /> <br />   $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 grep -P '\d' <<< 贍佟佗伲伽佶佴侑侉侃<br />   贍佟佗伲伽佶佴侑侉侃<br /> <br /> It should print nothing, like it has always done.<br /> </p></blockquote> <a href="/news/?id=10336">[...]</a> </div><div class="boxitem"><a href="/news/?id=10318"><b>grep-3.9 released [stable]</b></a><br />      <span class="smaller"><em>posted by <a href="/users/meyering">meyering</a>, Sun 05 Mar 2023 04:09:34 PM UTC</em></span> <p><br /> </p> <blockquote class='verbatim'><p> This is to announce grep-3.9, a stable release.<br /> <br /> The NEWS below describes the two main bug fixes since 3.8.<br /> <br /> There have been 38 commits by 4 people in the 26 weeks since 3.8.<br /> <br /> Thanks to everyone who has contributed!<br /> The following people contributed changes to this release:<br /> </p></blockquote> <a href="/news/?id=10318">[...]</a> </div><div class="boxitemalt"><a href="/news/?id=10191"><b>grep-3.8 released [stable]</b></a><br />      <span class="smaller"><em>posted by <a href="/users/meyering">meyering</a>, Sat 03 Sep 2022 08:04:39 AM UTC</em></span> <p><br /> </p> <blockquote class='verbatim'><p> This is to announce grep-3.8, a stable release.<br /> Special thanks to Carlo Arenas for adding PCRE2 support<br /> and to Paul Eggert for his many fine changes.<br /> <br /> There have been 104 commits by 6 people in the 55 weeks since 3.7.<br /> See the NEWS below for a brief summary.<br /> </p></blockquote> <a href="/news/?id=10191">[...]</a> </div><div class="boxitem"><a href="/news/?group_id=67"><span class="smaller">[41 news in archive]</span></a></div> </div> </div> <div class='splitleft'> <div class="box"> <div class='boxtitle'>Quick Overview</div> <div class='boxitem'><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Group Homepage</a></div> <div class="boxitemalt"><a href="/files/?group=grep"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Download Area</a></div> <div class="boxitem"><a href="/project/memberlist.php?group=grep"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Memberlist</a> (<b>9</b> members)</div> <div class="boxitemalt"><a href="/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=grep"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Group release GPG keyring</a></div> </div> <br /> <div class="box"> <div class='boxtitle'>Communication Tools</div> <div class='boxitem'></div> <div class="boxitem"><a href="/mail/?group=grep"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Mailing Lists</a> (<b>1</b> public mailing list)</div> </div> <br /> <div class="box"> <div class='boxtitle'><div id='devtools'>Development Tools</div></div> <div class='boxitem'></div> <div class="boxitem"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> <a href="/git/?group=grep">Git Repository</a> <ul> <li><a href="//git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git">Browse Sources Repository</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="boxitemalt"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> <a href="/cvs/?group=grep">CVS Repository</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?root=grep">Browse Web Pages Repository</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="boxitem"><a href="http://debbugs.gnu.org/grep"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Bug Tracker</a></div> <div class="boxitemalt"><a href="http://debbugs.gnu.org/grep"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/contexts/admin.png" width="24" height="24" alt="" border="0" /> Patch Manager</a></div> </div> </div> <p class='backtotop'> <a href="#top"><img src="/images/Savannah.theme/arrows/top.orig.png" alt="Back to the top" border="0" width="48" height="48" /></a> </p> <p class="footer"> Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br /> Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. <br /> The <a href="//www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.html">Levitating, Meditating, Flute-playing Gnu</a> logo is a GNU GPL'ed image provided by the Nevrax Design Team.<br /> <a href="//git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/administration/savane.git/plain//frontend/php/projects?id=8aba0884570a86f642fde4fed23adef7a2c7cfde">Page source code</a></p> <div align='right'><p>Powered by Savane 3.14-8aba.<br /><a href="https://savannah.gnu.org/source/savane-8aba0884570a86f642fde4fed23adef7a2c7cfde.tar.gz">Corresponding source code</a></p></div> </div>  </div>  </body> </html>