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Re: grep 2.4.2 misunderstanding/feature/bug/inconsistency ???
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: grep 2.4.2 misunderstanding/feature/bug/inconsistency ??? |
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12 Oct 2000 21:32:02 -0700 |
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address@hidden (John Refling) writes:
> When I use the -f option, I get what I expect, nothing. But when I
> use the -x and the -f together, I get ALL the lines in the file, not
> what I would expect.
That is indeed a bug in grep 2.4.2. I submitted a fix to
bug-gnu-utils on 2000-05-16 and it should appear in the next grep
release. There's a similar bug with "-w -f /dev/null".