From: Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: --line-regexp option with null data
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 01:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAXzdLWo4nvaJBMOBYsOYeCdrgw_O=8CM_H_kwfxnU=AqnuOjA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
Consider this command:
printf 'alpha\nbravo\ncharlie\n' | grep --line-regexp --quiet bravo
grep sees 3 lines separated by newline, and matches the bravo line. Now consider
this command:
printf 'alpha\0bravo\0charlie\0' | grep --line-regexp --quiet bravo
My thinking tells me that because I have not used `--null-data`, grep should see
1 or even 0 lines separated by newline, and fail to match a `bravo` followed by
newline. However it does not, it succeeds just like the first command, why is
this?
Note I also tried this on Debian with Grep 2.2 and it works as expected.
http://stackoverflow.com/q/31467045
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-17 1:29 Steven Penny [this message]
2015-07-17 2:04 ` John Hein
2015-07-17 2:35 ` Andrey Repin
2015-07-17 3:04 ` Steven Penny
2015-07-17 3:26 ` Vince Rice
2015-07-17 3:44 ` Steven Penny
2015-07-17 11:55 ` Eric Blake
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