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bug#22071: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty fil
From: |
Santiago Ruano Rincón |
Subject: |
bug#22071: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:56:48 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
El 01/12/15 a las 22:36, Mark Wotton escribió:
> orb ➜ ~/src/grep-2.22 touch empty
> orb ➜ ~/src/grep-2.22 ./src/grep -v -l "hi there" ./empty
>
> gives empty output. Surely the file "empty" should match 'does not match
> "hi there"' ?
-v, --invert-match
Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.
I think this is not a bug because there isn't non-matching line in an empty
file.
Cheers,
-- Santiago