bug#69929: Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines?

[Dennis Clarke]

On 3/22/24 17:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 3/22/24 12:25, Dennis Clarke via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
> > Old Solaris 8, once fully patched, was definately
> > compliant with SUSv2 which is all of POSIX.1b-1993, POSIX.1c-1996
>
> POSIX does not specify the behavior of grep when the input is not a text 
> file, and a file that ends in a non-newline is not a text file. So 
> Solaris grep and GNU grep can do what they like when the input ends in a 
> non-newline; they don't have to agree with each other.

re "a file that ends in a non-newline is not a text file" <-- really?

That is a new one on me. Regardless ... this is entirely a GNU sed
discussion so the comparison to some XPG4 grep from old old Solaris
is not really all that helpful. Sorry.


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Dennis Clarke
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