Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2016:2000 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2016-10-04
Updated:
2016-10-04

RHBA-2016:2000 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

grep bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

Updated grep packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The grep utility searches through textual input for lines that contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. The GNU grep utilities include grep, egrep, and fgrep.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • In the past, the "grep -r PATTERN" command incorrectly read from the standard input instead of recursively scanning the current directory for files containing the PATTERN. This has been fixed in a past update. However, the new correct behavior broke some scripts that assumed the old functionality.

This update introduces a backward compatibility environment variable GREP_LEGACY_R. If set to '1', it makes grep behave the old incorrect way, and can be used to make the old scripts work again. (BZ#1367309)

Users of grep are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
x86_64
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bd62afcb201432da450b8029b680140f04310ec83d8913614d4ba6473e203597
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8164bda0b933d9a96e7fa3f6c044e34e342bfd7f3304d2d373db76b16bf887a8
i386
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c23bd9ee8b94f994cf3cdf38394f924f70c5fcfb5b0b268aba2d2e0d8d7faee9
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 9901ba8633ca0d80354a246a76677598c6308b42006bad1448722ac7d554bca8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
x86_64
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bd62afcb201432da450b8029b680140f04310ec83d8913614d4ba6473e203597
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8164bda0b933d9a96e7fa3f6c044e34e342bfd7f3304d2d373db76b16bf887a8
i386
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c23bd9ee8b94f994cf3cdf38394f924f70c5fcfb5b0b268aba2d2e0d8d7faee9
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 9901ba8633ca0d80354a246a76677598c6308b42006bad1448722ac7d554bca8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
x86_64
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bd62afcb201432da450b8029b680140f04310ec83d8913614d4ba6473e203597
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8164bda0b933d9a96e7fa3f6c044e34e342bfd7f3304d2d373db76b16bf887a8
i386
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c23bd9ee8b94f994cf3cdf38394f924f70c5fcfb5b0b268aba2d2e0d8d7faee9
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 9901ba8633ca0d80354a246a76677598c6308b42006bad1448722ac7d554bca8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
x86_64
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bd62afcb201432da450b8029b680140f04310ec83d8913614d4ba6473e203597
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8164bda0b933d9a96e7fa3f6c044e34e342bfd7f3304d2d373db76b16bf887a8
i386
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: c23bd9ee8b94f994cf3cdf38394f924f70c5fcfb5b0b268aba2d2e0d8d7faee9
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.i686.rpm SHA-256: 9901ba8633ca0d80354a246a76677598c6308b42006bad1448722ac7d554bca8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
s390x
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: f0846baf98ed6d81fe020b4fd1073a165d60e73c00b289460148a3d8e849af26
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 123f9fe57180fa027ed98243e4ad7b8f5667b2a8f233399eec37d158742ae6f3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
ppc64
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 20287debd8618cb4ba5fbc83ac9ce8d067bcd9520fa6d2bf43e35510b415af35
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 3cfc9639872b6aaf427faf0b96cc398afa1fc969767d8fc928ea3fca12347a4e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
x86_64
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: bd62afcb201432da450b8029b680140f04310ec83d8913614d4ba6473e203597
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 8164bda0b933d9a96e7fa3f6c044e34e342bfd7f3304d2d373db76b16bf887a8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.src.rpm SHA-256: 6a3b09b3b12fa34cda52e4253d0f5846455e12b30469fb27d0ebb8e140321f4e
s390x
grep-2.20-5.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: f0846baf98ed6d81fe020b4fd1073a165d60e73c00b289460148a3d8e849af26
grep-debuginfo-2.20-5.el6_8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 123f9fe57180fa027ed98243e4ad7b8f5667b2a8f233399eec37d158742ae6f3

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