[bug-grep] [bug #12660] byte-offset has an off-by-one error

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                 Summary: byte-offset has an off-by-one error
                 Project: grep
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 04/12/2005 at 14:22
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open

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Details:

the byte offset reported when using the -b option is incorrect.  It is off by
one *per line*.  (except of course the first line, which correctly reports 0
offset).  So the byte offset reported on the Nth line is incorrect by (N-1). 


I reproduced this with grep v2.5 on a Solaris system and grep v2.5.1 on a
Linux system.  

This can be easily demonstrated.  
1.  create a small file.  e.g.  
    echo '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv' > foo
    foo will now contain 32 bytes (including the final cr) on a 
    unix system.  (DOS will add a lf)
2.  view foo with xxd to satisfy self that this is true.  
    use 'xxd -c 8 foo' - this will show four rows of 16
    (xxd will display 2 characters per byte)
3.  view output of 'xxd -p -c 8 foo' -- satisfy self that this 
    outputs only the contents of the file in rows of 16 chars
4.  pipe it to grep as follows:
    'xxd -p -c 8 foo | grep -b ".*"'   
5.  view output - note that although there are only 16 
    chars per line,  grep reports offsets of 
    0,17,34,51 ...






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