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Date:	Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:06:10 +0100
From:	Peter Rosin <peda AT lysator DOT liu DOT se>
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Subject:	Re: BUG: grep (GNU grep) 2.24
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On 2016-03-21 14:56, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Gordon Grimes writes:
>> % wc -l FILE
>> 48786
>> % grep . FILE
>> 2240
>>
>> Very wrong. 
> 
> You're aware that "." doesn't match empty lines?

Agreed, that is relevant, but there's the difference between v2.21 and v2.24...

On a whim and given that we don't know what FILE is, I'd give this a go:

% LANG=C grep . FILE

Cheers,
Peter

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