Hello. I'm trying to use grep to get the list of all non-binary files in a given folder. I tried with the 2.20 and the 3.11 release.

For some reason, grep is providing 2 false negatives when the list is huge. This issue does not happen if I break the grep input with "xargs -n X".

Check below:

[opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 3.11
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others; see
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

[opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ find -type f -not -path "./.patch_storage/*" -not -name "tfa_setup" -print0 2>> /tmp/error.list | xargs -0 -n 100 grep -Il '.' > /tmp/list1.list

[opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ find -type f -not -path "./.patch_storage/*" -not -name "tfa_setup" -print0 2>> /tmp/error.list | xargs -0 grep -Il '.' > /tmp/list2.list

[opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ diff /tmp/list1.list /tmp/list2.list
12268,12269d12267
< ./apex/images/apex_ui/psd/apex_5_ui.ai

< ./apex/images/apex_ui/psd/apex-logo.ai

[opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ wc -l /tmp/list1.list /tmp/list2.list
23397 /tmp/list1.list
23395 /tmp/list2.list
46792 total

The output should not show any difference.

The same issue was also reproduced in grep 2.20.

Thanks,

Rodrigo