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Full text available.Received: (at 19348) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Dec 2014 05:24:50 +0000 From debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Fri Dec 12 00:24:50 2014 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43442 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org>) id 1XzIif-0002Ll-Nc for submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:24:49 -0500 Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:44132) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from <eggert@HIDDEN>) id 1XzIic-0002LU-WF for 19348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:24:48 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC6B7A60116; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:24:40 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11p1LUCuUxJc; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:24:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.9] (pool-71-177-17-123.lsanca.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.177.17.123]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 972B9A6001B; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:24:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <548A7C13.8020907@HIDDEN> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:24:35 -0800 From: Paul Eggert <eggert@HIDDEN> Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaroslav Skarvada <jskarvad@HIDDEN>, 19348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#19348: grep-2.21 cannot match patterns with NULLs in binary files References: <1574360678.26672285.1418311884733.JavaMail.zimbra@HIDDEN> In-Reply-To: <1574360678.26672285.1418311884733.JavaMail.zimbra@HIDDEN> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 19348 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org> List-Unsubscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/debbugs-submit/> List-Post: <mailto:debbugs-submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org> List-Help: <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debbugs-submit>, <mailto:debbugs-submit-request <at> debbugs.gnu.org?subject=subscribe> Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" <debbugs-submit-bounces <at> debbugs.gnu.org> X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) 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.
bug-grep@HIDDEN:bug#19348; Package grep.
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