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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 14:50:59 +0100
From: Houder <houder@xs4all.nl>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: BUG:  grep (GNU grep) 2.24
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On 2016-03-21 14:40, Gordon Grimes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had generated a FILE by simply doing a 'find' on a directory and
> used grep to cull the results.  I wasn't working so I repeated and
> tried the following trivial 'grep':
> 
> % wc -l FILE
> 48786
> % grep . FILE
> 2240
> 
> Very wrong.
> 
> I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected:
> % grep . FILE
> 48786

@@ grep -v '.' vrf_xxx.txt | wc -l
80
@@ grep '.' vrf_xxx.txt | wc -l
356
@@ wc -l vrf_xxx.txt
436 vrf_xxx.txt
@@ grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.24
...

I am content.

Regards,

Henri

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