Fedora 14 Update: grep-2.8-1.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-7051
2011-05-17 00:10:48
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Name        : grep
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.8
Release     : 1.fc14
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/
Summary     : 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.

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

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Update Information:

This is new version of grep that fixes 3 bugs. For details see original announcement: http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=6821 This update also adds implicit coloring to egrep and fgrep.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon May 16 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.8-1
- New version: grep-2.8
  Resolves: rhbz#704710
- Removed const-range-exp patch (upstreamed)
- Added coloring to egrep and fgrep
  Resolves: rhbz#697895
* Mon Apr  4 2011 Jaroslav Škarvada <jskarvad at redhat.com> - 2.7-2
- colorgrep scripts no longer overwrites COLORS envvar (#693058),
  thanks to Ville Skyttä
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #704710 - grep-2.8 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=704710
  [ 2 ] Bug #697895 - If grep is coloured, egrep and fgrep should be as well
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=697895
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update grep' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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