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Can grep search for a line feed and a null character at the same time?

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Message #11 received at 32704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 21naown <at> gmail.com, 32704 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32704: Can grep search for a line feed and a null character
 at the same time?
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:14:51 -0700

On 9/11/18 10:03 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> maybe we really do have a bug - when -z is in effect, I'd expect NUL, 
> rather than newline, to be the byte that separates separate patterns 
> in the pattern argument

You're right, I think it's a bug that grep -zf FILE uses newline 
separators in FILE. It should use NUL separators.

This cannot be done for NUL bytes in command-line patterns, though, 
since command-line arguments cannot contain NUL bytes.

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