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Subject: bug#19348: grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files
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Hi,

commit 8cc20c82a747460991305b0d8d72faf6830298f4,
"grep: non-text bytes in binary data may be treated as line ends"

added optimization that NULLs are treated as line ends. This is
change of behaviour that may break other tools. Currently I know
about [1], [2]. This new behaviour is not documented in manual page,
it is only briefly mentioned in the NEWS file.

I also think that the old behaviour is useful, so command line switch
for this would be probably handy

thanks & regards

Jaroslav

[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172405
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172804

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Subject: bug#19348: grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files
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Jaroslav Skarvada wrote:

> This new behaviour is not documented in manual page

The full manual says "When matching binary data, grep may treat non-text bytes 
as line terminators."  See:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/File-and-Directory-Selection.html

> [1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172405
> [2]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172804

Those are both essentially the same bug, right?  And the symptoms are a wrong 
diagnostic but the application still works?  Anyway, I filed a bug report for 
that application here:

http://bugs.debian.org/772901

because a portable shell script cannot use 'grep' on binary data -- POSIX says 
the behavior is undefined.  It's not clear that GNU grep needs a new option to 
resurrect the 2.20 behavior, as the -a option suffices here just as well as any 
new option would, and -a is more portable.

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