Subject: bug#22071: closed (Re: bug#22071: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:12:02 +0000

Your bug report

#22071: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files

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

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Subject: Re: bug#22071: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files
From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
To: Mark Wotton <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:11:20 -0800
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On 12/02/2015 05:57 AM, Mark Wotton wrote:
> Yes, I understand the interpretation now.

Thanks, closing the bug.

Subject: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files
From: Mark Wotton <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2015 22:36:10 +0000
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orb ➜  ~/src/grep-2.22  touch empty
orb ➜  ~/src/grep-2.22  ./src/grep -v -l "hi there" ./empty

gives empty output. Surely the file "empty" should match 'does not match
"hi there"' ?

cheers
mark