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bug#16965: Likely bug in grep for file without an ending newline


From: Abramo Bagnara
Subject: bug#16965: Likely bug in grep for file without an ending newline
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:38:12 +0100
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$ echo -n test > file
$ fgrep e file
test
$ fgrep -v q file
test
$ cat file
test$

My expectation would be that file is not altered by grep if all lines
matches pattern.

Is current grep behavior the expected one?


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Abramo Bagnara





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