grep (GNU grep) 2.24

[Gerrit Haase]

2016-04-08 22:52 GMT+02:00 Gordon Grimes wrote:
> % wc -l FILE
> 48786
> % grep . FILE
> 2240
>
> Very wrong.
>
> I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected:
> % grep . FILE
> 48786

Hi Gordon,

I am curious, what is the result if you do s.th. like:

cat FILE | grep x

where x is some common string in the file?

Regards,
Gerrit
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