GNU bug report logs - #20526
BUG: text file is detected as binary

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Sebastian Poehn <sebastian.poehn <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 15:41:03 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 19230, 19985, 21558

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>
Cc: sebastian.poehn <at> gmail.com, 20526 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20526: grep BUG: text file is detected as binary
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 10:04:06 -0800

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Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> I get following output after apply the patch.  Is it expected?
>
> $ printf 'a\na\377\na\n' | LANG=en_US.utf8 src/grep a
> a
> Binary file (standard input) matches

Yes, it's expected.  Thanks, this should be stated more clearly, so I installed 
the attached documentation patch.

[0001-doc-clarify-text-vs-binary-match-output.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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