GNU bug report logs - #22461
problem with "Binary file messages" in latest snapshot

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 09:21:02 UTC

Severity: normal

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: grep mailing list <bug-grep <at> gnu.org>
Subject: problem with "Binary file messages" in latest snapshot
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 01:19:42 -0800

I ran into this problem when using 'grep' to search through GNU Emacs installed 
files. Here's how to reproduce the problem:

$ (echo xxx && yes yyy | sed 100000q && printf '\0') >big
$ grep xxx big
xxx
Binary file big matches

The last line should not be output. I'll look into fixing this.
This bug report was last modified 9 years and 149 days ago.

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