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Error when a long list is provided to grep with "--binary-files=without-match" option

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From: Rodrigo Jorge <rodrigoaraujorge <at> gmail.com>
To: 73360 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73360: Error when a long list is provided to grep with "--binary-files=without-match" option
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:49:31 -0300

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Hello. I'm trying to use grep to get the list of all non-binary files in a
given folder. I tried with the 2.20 and the 3.11 release.

For some reason, grep is providing 2 false negatives when the list is huge.
This issue does not happen if I break the grep input with "xargs -n X".

Check below:

[opc <at> oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 3.11
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
https://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
<https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

[opc <at> oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ find -type f -not -path "./.patch_storage/*"
-not -name "tfa_setup" -print0 2>> /tmp/error.list | xargs -0 -n 100 grep
-Il '.' > /tmp/list1.list

[opc <at> oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ find -type f -not -path "./.patch_storage/*"
-not -name "tfa_setup" -print0 2>> /tmp/error.list | xargs -0 grep -Il '.'
> /tmp/list2.list

[opc <at> oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ diff /tmp/list1.list /tmp/list2.list
12268,12269d12267
< ./apex/images/apex_ui/psd/apex_5_ui.ai
< ./apex/images/apex_ui/psd/apex-logo.ai

[opc <at> oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ wc -l /tmp/list1.list /tmp/list2.list
  23397 /tmp/list1.list
  23395 /tmp/list2.list
  46792 total

The output should not show any difference.

The same issue was also reproduced in grep 2.20.

Thanks,
Rodrigo

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