GNU bug report logs - #51669
some patterns which should match 0x0 don’t do so

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Package: grep;

Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.org>

Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2021 17:30:02 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: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo <at> scientia.org>
Cc: 51669 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#51669: some patterns which should match 0x0 don’t do so
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 11:05:40 -0800

On 11/8/21 06:59, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> the console output in the 0x02
> case seems to imply that grep already considers it binary (and not text
> file).
> So I thought it would make sense to do the same if it encounters 0x00.

No, because grep is documented to treat 0x00 like newline in some cases, 
such as the case you described. It does not treat 0x02 like newline.
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