Subject: bug#50025: Strange? grep behaviour

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 14:04:15 -0700

On 8/12/21 1:27 AM, Daniel Forsberg wrote:

> this seems to be something particular to my
> system but I have not been able to find why.

I cannot reproduce the problem on my machine (Fedora 34) either.

Try running "env - /usr/bin/grep" instead of plain "grep". If this fixes 
the problem, then your environment is busted somehow. Perhaps your PATH 
is pointing to the wrong 'grep'.