Copyright (C) 1992, 1997-2002, 2004-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

  Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,

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This is GNU grep, the "fastest grep in the west" (we hope).  All

bugs reported in previous releases have been fixed.  Many exciting new

bugs have probably been introduced in this revision.

GNU grep is provided "as is" with no warranty.  The exact terms

under which you may use and (re)distribute this program are detailed

in the GNU General Public License, in the file COPYING.

GNU grep is based on a fast lazy-state deterministic matcher (about

twice as fast as stock Unix egrep) hybridized with a Boyer-Moore-Gosper

search for a fixed string that eliminates impossible text from being

considered by the full regexp matcher without necessarily having to

look at every character.  The result is typically many times faster

than Unix grep or egrep.  (Regular expressions containing backreferencing

will run more slowly, however.)

See the files AUTHORS and THANKS for a list of authors and other contributors.

See the file INSTALL for compilation and installation instructions.

If there is no INSTALL file, this copy of the source code is intended

for expert hackers; please see the file README-hacking.

See the file NEWS for a description of major changes in this release.

See the file TODO for ideas on how you could help us improve grep.

See the file README-alpha for information on grep development and the CVS

  repository.

Send bug reports to bug-grep@gnu.org.

KNOWN BUGS:

Several tests in fmbtest.sh and foad1.sh fail under the cs_CZ.UTF-8 locale

and have been disabled.

The combination of -o and -i options is broken and the known failing cases

are disabled in foad1.sh

The option -i does not work properly in some multibyte locales such as

tr_TR.UTF-8 where the upper case and lower case forms of a character are not

necessarily of the same byte length.

A list of outstanding and resolved bugs can be found at:

        http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=grep

You can also browse the bug-grep mailing list archive at:

        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/

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note that the range specifies every single year in that closed interval.