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: Norbert de Jonge <mail <at> norbertdejonge.nl>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: -A and mixed line terminators
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 03:14:18 +0100

Hi,

I don't know if this is a bug or not, but -A does not seem to properly
deal with mixed line terminators.

Here's a way to replicate the issue.

$ wget http://www.popot.org/popuw_forum_archive/4a.html
$ file 4a.html
$ wc -l 4a.html
$ grep -A 10000 tul 4a.html
$ tail 4a.html

I'm requesting 10000 lines of trailing context, which is more lines
than the entire file, but output is prematurely cut off.

Best regards,
Norbert
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