Subject: bug#20080: closed (Re: bug#20080: '.' fails to match null byte)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:34:04 +0000

Your bug report

#20080: '.' fails to match null byte

which was filed against the grep package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#20080: '.' fails to match null byte
From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
To: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:32:38 -0700
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tags 20080 notabug
thanks

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> You can use the --text (-a) option to make it match.
>
> The --text option is supposed to only change the output, no the match.

True, but that is a separate issue, so I'm closing this bug report and
will open a new one.

Subject: '.' fails to match null byte
From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 15:32:01 +0100
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$ printf "a\0b\n" | src/grep a.b; echo $?
1

Andreas.

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