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  1. Bug #274221
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Comment 2 for bug 274221

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote : Re: grep -w doesn't always grab whole words

Thanks for your report. This is reproducible in Intrepid. I suspect that this is one of those multibyte bugs of grep.

Does it work correctly with the following command:
LANG=C grep -w alloca kernel/pid.c

Can you post the output of the command : locale

Thanks in advance.