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incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files

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From: Mark Wotton <mwotton <at> gmail.com>
To: Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 22071 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22071: incorrect behaviour for inverted matches with -l on empty files
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2015 08:14:05 -0500

hm. "grep -l '' empty" also doesn't print anything, so I guess it's
consistent, at least.

On 12/2/15, Santiago Ruano Rincón <santiagorr <at> riseup.net> wrote:
> El 01/12/15 a las 22:36, Mark Wotton escribió:
>> 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"' ?
>        -v, --invert-match
>               Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines.
>
> I think this is not a bug because there isn't non-matching line in an empty
> file.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Santiago
>


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