GNU bug report logs - #29668
grep: Fatal problem with (big) file

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Package: grep;

Reported by: pg <pasi.vitsa <at> yahoo.com>

Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:03:02 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: Norihiro Tanaka <noritnk <at> kcn.ne.jp>, pg <pasi.vitsa <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 29668 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, toimitus <at> masinistit.com, webmaster <at> ubuntu.com
Subject: bug#29668: grep: Fatal problem with (big) file
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:28:09 -0800

On 12/11/2017 03:36 PM, Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> Perhaps, characters not to be able to recognize in your locale included
> in Tieliikenne 5.0.csv and volvot.csv are included.

Yes, that's the problem. The original 'grep' output ended in "Binary 
file Tieliikenne5.0.csv matches" but the user didn't see that. Perhaps 
we should send that diagnostic to stderr as well.
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