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From: Gerrit Haase <gerrit.haase@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.24
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2016 20:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+Fg1xarsWA7K4mRU8kij3G_xvCO1ObVJJV7PMXu97VpMJJ7aQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <70C6F637A7E2844391D854CF15BB7A8F5AAADB4D21@TUS1XCHEVSPIN42.SYMC.SYMANTEC.COM>

2016-04-08 22:52 GMT+02:00 Gordon Grimes wrote:
> % wc -l FILE
> 48786
> % grep . FILE
> 2240
>
> Very wrong.
>
> I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected:
> % grep . FILE
> 48786

Hi Gordon,

I am curious, what is the result if you do s.th. like:

cat FILE | grep x

where x is some common string in the file?

Regards,
Gerrit
=^..^=

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2016-04-08 20:53 Gordon Grimes
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