RE: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

RE: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

[Gordon Grimes]

HI all,

Firstly, I neglected to show that I had piped the grep results into "wc -l".  That's where the numbers came from.
Secondly, I've reinstalled the later version and will watch for a recurrence.  If it happens I'll post the full test, including the "FILE" contents. 

Thanks for the responses.

Enjoy,
-g-

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Grimes 
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 9:40 AM
To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: BUG: grep (GNU grep) 2.24 

Hi,

I had generated a FILE by simply doing a 'find' on a directory and used grep to cull the results.  I wasn't working so I repeated and tried the following trivial 'grep':

% wc -l FILE
48786
% grep . FILE
2240

Very wrong. 

I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected:
% grep . FILE
48786





--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple

Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

[Gerrit Haase]

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
=^..^=

--
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple