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CentOS 7 - Updates for x86_64: applications/text: grep

grep - Pattern matching utilities

Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
License: GPLv3+
Vendor: CentOS
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.

GNU grep is needed by many scripts, so it shall be installed on every system.

Packages

grep-2.20-3.el7.x86_64 [344 KiB] Changelog by Jaroslav Škarvada (2017-03-24):
- Speedup DFA for long patterns and fixed begline/endline matching
  Resolves: rhbz#1413029
- Added support for GREP_LEGACY_EGREP_FGREP_PS environmental variable which
  controls how egrep, fgrep show in ps output
  Resolves: rhbz#1297441
grep-2.20-2.el7.x86_64 [343 KiB] Changelog by Jaroslav Škarvada (2015-04-29):
- Fixed invalid UTF-8 byte sequence error in PCRE mode
  (by pcre-backported-fixes patch)
  Resolves: rhbz#1217080
- Fixed buffer overrun for grep -F
  Resolves: CVE-2015-1345
- Fixed \w and \W behaviour in multibyte locales
  Resolves: rhbz#1159012
- Documented --fixed-regexp option
  Resolves: rhbz#1103259
- Updated pcre buildrequires to require pcre-devel >= 7.8-7
  Related: rhbz#1217080

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