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On 07/16/2015 08:04 PM, John Hein wrote:

>  >     printf 'alpha\0bravo\0charlie\0' | grep --line-regexp --quiet bravo
>  >
>  > My thinking tells me that because I have not used `--null-data`, grep =
should see
>  > 1 or even 0 lines separated by newline, and fail to match a `bravo` fo=
llowed by
>  > newline. However it does not, it succeeds just like the first command,=
 why is
>  > this?
>  >
>  > Note I also tried this on Debian with Grep 2.2 and it works as expecte=
d.
>  >
>  > http://stackoverflow.com/q/31467045
>=20
> cygwin grep is detecting the input as binary which seems to be
> overriding the 'match the whole line' behavior of --line-regexp.  Get
> rid of --quiet to see that.

The behavior on Linux is the same.  See the NEWS for grep 2.21:

  When searching binary data, grep now may treat non-text bytes as
  line terminators.  This can boost performance significantly.

>=20
> That does seem like a bug in the cygwin implementation of grep to me.

No, it is intentional upstream behavior.

>=20
> As a workaround for this simple example, you can add -a (aka --text)
> to force it to treat the input as text.

Yes, that IS the correct solution.  You must TELL grep to not treat \0
as a line terminator.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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