[debbugs-tracker] bug#31263: closed (If grep given both --context and --max-count, context not printed if it contains pattern)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: If grep given both --context and --max-count, context not printed if it contains pattern Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:00:27 -0400 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0

To the maintainers of GNU grep:

I came across a behavior I didn't expect when using grep with the flags --after-context and --max-count. If PATTERN is in the context, it won't be printed, presumably because I specified max count. Is this intended or a bug?

```sh

$ cat tmp.txt
hi
hello
test
hey there

$ grep -A 3 -m 1 h tmp.txt
hi

```

Expected behavior:
hi
hello
test

Thanks for your time,
Joshua Nelson
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> On 04/25/2018 03:00 PM, Joshua Nelson wrote:
> > $ cat tmp.txt  > hi > hello > test > hey there > > $ grep -A 3 -m 1 h tmp.txt > hi > 
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> Surely the output you expect should be:
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> because the "hey there" line is the third line of trailing context after 
> the "hi" line. Anyway, the problem you're reporting was fixed in grep 
> 3.1, so please try upgrading to the current version of grep.
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