Subject: bug#31182: Grep Not Matching with Caret in First Line of File

From: Benno Schulenberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 21:41:18 +0200

Budin, Clay wrote:
> It seems like grep isn't matching with a caret (start-of-line) on the first 
> line of a file.
Most likely you have a BOM (Byte Order Mark) on the first line.

(It would be cool, though, if grep could ignore that mark.)

Benno