GNU bug report logs - #16965
Likely bug in grep for file without an ending newline

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Abramo Bagnara <abramo.bagnara <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 22:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Abramo Bagnara <abramo.bagnara <at> gmail.com>
To: jim <at> meyering.net, mark.veltzer <at> gmail.com, bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Likely bug in grep for file without an ending newline
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:38:12 +0100

$ echo -n test > file
$ fgrep e file
test
$ fgrep -v q file
test
$ cat file
test$

My expectation would be that file is not altered by grep if all lines
matches pattern.

Is current grep behavior the expected one?


-- 
Abramo Bagnara
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 136 days ago.

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