BUG: grep (GNU grep) 2.24

[Marco Atzeri]

On 21/03/2016 14:40, Gordon Grimes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had generated a FILE by simply doing a 'find' on a directory and used grep to cull the results.  I wasn't working so I repeated and tried the following trivial 'grep':
>
> % wc -l FILE
> 48786
> % grep . FILE
> 2240

may be was a grep -c . FILE

>
> Very wrong.

A bit vague statement.

>
> I reverted to version 2.21 and everything now works as expected:
> % grep . FILE
> 48786
>

Without seeing the FILE content I can not bu sure, but I will bet
on LANG settings for any discrepancy in your expectation

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