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bug#20080: '.' fails to match null byte
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
bug#20080: '.' fails to match null byte |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:08:29 -0700 |
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> wrote:
> $ printf "a\0b\n" | src/grep a.b; echo $?
> 1
Thanks for the report.
However, that is now the expected behavior, and the change was
announced in grep-2.21.
You can use the --text (-a) option to make it match.
Here is the entry from the NEWS file:
** Changes in behavior
When searching binary data, grep now may treat non-text bytes as
line terminators. This can boost performance significantly.