Subject: bug#42623: fgrep -x -f problem

From: Arthur Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:16:11 -0400

Hi Gnu grep folks

I believe that

fgrep -x -f file file

should output the contents of `file`. However, it outputs something very 
different for the attached file.

command:

fgrep -x -f dfba.py dfba.py > actual_output.txt

versions:

$ uname -a
Linux 8845f126fe89 4.19.76-linuxkit #1 SMP Thu Oct 17 19:31:58 UTC 2019 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ fgrep --version
grep (GNU grep) 3.1
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others, see 
<http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

Thanks

Arthur

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