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grep -P and invalid exits with error

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From: Santiago <santiago <at> debian.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, 758105 <at> bugs.debian.org
Cc: 18266 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Subject: Re: Bug#758105: bug#18266: Bug#758105: bug#18266: grep -P and
 invalid exits with error
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 16:01:27 +0200

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El 14/08/14 a las 14:33, Paul Eggert escribió:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >On input, using null bytes may be better if one wants to be able to
> >match real replacement characters without false positives.
> 
> Maybe, though this is no place to get fancy.  It's simple to tell users "an
> invalid byte acts like '?'".  Simple is good.
> 
> Anyway, this is a matter for the implementing volunteer to decide, whoever
> that happens to be.
> 

Workaround attached. It's too slow against binary files, but I haven't
found a simpler solution.

What do you think?

Santiago

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