%general-entities; ]> Grep The current Grep package has many bugs, especially in the support of multibyte locales. RedHat fixed some of them with the following patch: patch -Np1 -i ../&grep-fixes-patch; In order for the tests added by this patch to pass, the permissions for the test file have to be changed: chmod +x tests/fmbtest.sh Prepare Grep for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin Compile the package: make To test the results, issue: make check. Install the package: make install Installed programs egrep (link to grep), fgrep (link to grep), and grep Short Descriptions egrep Prints lines matching an extended regular expression egrep fgrep Prints lines matching a list of fixed strings fgrep grep Prints lines matching a basic regular expression grep