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bug#32704: Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the s


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#32704: Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the same time?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:14:51 -0700
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On 9/11/18 10:03 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
maybe we really do have a bug - when -z is in effect, I'd expect NUL, rather than newline, to be the byte that separates separate patterns in the pattern argument

You're right, I think it's a bug that grep -zf FILE uses newline separators in FILE. It should use NUL separators.

This cannot be done for NUL bytes in command-line patterns, though, since command-line arguments cannot contain NUL bytes.






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