grep Abandons (with core dump in some systems) when invoked with recurse and perl switches

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • grep-2.6.3-6 will cause a crash/abrt with the following command line:
grep -P prpt /var/log/messages
  • Reverting to grep-2.6.3-4 allows the command to work.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • grep-2.6.3-6

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