bug#16871: problems about matching newline (with -z)

[Paul Eggert]

Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> The doc has a confusing statement ... Same confusion in tests/pcre:

Thanks, I installed the attached patch to fix those.

> We can match a newline with grep -zP 'a\nb' (or '\x0a' or '\012'
> or '[\n]'...) but not easily without -P. Same for NUL
> characters.

Yes, that's a downside of the POSIX notation, and it'd be nice to extend 
POSIX to allow easy matching for newlines and/or null bytes.  I'll mark 
this bug report as a wishlist bug.

0001-misc-fix-doc-and-test-bugs-re-grep-z.patch
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