Subject: Re: bug#23965: egrep should report line number when failing to parse a file (with -f)

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 23:00:35 -0700

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Santiago Ruano Rincón
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> El 23/07/16 a las 09:31, Jim Meyering escribió:
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Jim Meyering <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:59 AM, Santiago Ruano Rincón
>> > <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> …
>
>> Here are two patches.
>> The first adds coreutils' perl-based test harness to grep.
>> The second improves those diagnostics and adds a test using the new harness:
>
> Thanks!
>
> I will include it in the next grep debian release.

Nice.
I've added a couple more tests and pushed as
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/commit/?id=f13c169e13aed279baa00d9ced9d93fe24775493