GNU bug report logs - #56843
grep mangling lines

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Package: grep;

Reported by: "David G. Pickett" <dgpickett <at> aol.com>

Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 17:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 56843-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: "David G. Pickett" <dgpickett <at> aol.com>
Cc: 56843-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#56843: grep mangling lines
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2022 21:50:06 -0700

On 7/30/22 17:42, David G. Pickett wrote:
> Any clues on how I got an xterm to mess up?

Presumably by sending that sequence of escape characters to xterm. You 
should be able to reproduce the problem by using grep --color=always and 
sending the output to a file F, and then by typing 'cat F'.

As this is not a grep bug, I'll close the grep bug report.
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