GNU bug report logs - #25693
-A and mixed line terminators

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Reported by: Norbert de Jonge <mail <at> norbertdejonge.nl>

Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 02:15:02 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: Norbert de Jonge <mail <at> norbertdejonge.nl>, 25693-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25693: -A and mixed line terminators
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 23:44:30 -0800

Norbert de Jonge wrote:
> I'm requesting 10000 lines of trailing context, which is more lines
> than the entire file, but output is prematurely cut off.

The last line of output is "Binary file 4a.html matches", which indicates that 
the output would otherwise have data that is improperly encoded for your locale. 
Try using the -a option, or use the C locale (set LC_ALL=C in your environment).
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