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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 13:52:58 -0700
Subject: RE: grep (GNU grep) 2.24
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HI all,

Firstly, I neglected to show that I had piped the grep results into "wc -l".  That's where the numbers came from.
Secondly, I've reinstalled the later version and will watch for a recurrence.  If it happens I'll post the full test, including the "FILE" contents. 

Thanks for the responses.

Enjoy,
-g-

-----Original Message-----
From: Gordon Grimes 
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 9:40 AM
To: 'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com' <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: BUG: grep (GNU grep) 2.24 

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





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