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Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.24
- From: Gerrit Haase <gerrit dot haase at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 22:48:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: grep (GNU grep) 2.24
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2016-04-08 22:52 GMT+02:00 Gordon Grimes wrote:
> % wc -l FILE
> 48786
> % grep . FILE
> 2240
>
> Very wrong.
>
> I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected:
> % grep . FILE
> 48786
Hi Gordon,
I am curious, what is the result if you do s.th. like:
cat FILE | grep x
where x is some common string in the file?
Regards,
Gerrit
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