GNU bug report logs - #19330
bug in grep -Pv ":\n" or even in rep -Pv ":\n"

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Package: grep;

Reported by: "Arul, Shankari Swetaambari" <shankari.swetaambari.arul <at> intel.com>

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 18:49:02 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 #8 received at 19330 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Arul, Shankari Swetaambari" <shankari.swetaambari.arul <at> intel.com>, 
 19330 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#19330: bug in grep -Pv ":\n" or even in rep -Pv ":\n"
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:39:31 -0800

Arul, Shankari Swetaambari wrote:
> The grep expression grep -Pv ":\n"

Grep matches lines one at a time, so the Perl regular expression "\n" can never 
match anything.
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