[debbugs-tracker] bug#37716: closed (grep exit status with -L redirected to /dev/null)

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regarding grep exit status with -L redirected to /dev/null
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> grep exit status with -L redirected to /dev/null
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> Sat, 12 Oct 2019 15:22:05 +0100
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> Mutt/1.12.2 (2019-09-21)
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> Hi grep maintainers,
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> This behaviour, with grep 3.3 built from source, is a bit surprising:
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> $ echo hello >thing
> $ grep -L goodbye thing && echo OK
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> $ grep -L goodbye thing >/dev/null && echo OK
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> That is, when using -L, redirecting stdout to /dev/null has the same
> effect on the exit code as specifying -q (the behaviour with -q is
> described in the "Exit Status" section of the manual). This is a bit
> awkward if you're using grep in a script, because you don't necessarily
> have any control over whether stdout is /dev/null or not.
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> Cheers,
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> Adam Sampson <address@hidden>                         <http://offog.org/>
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#37716: grep exit status with -L redirected to /dev/null Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 18:33:23 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 Thanks for reporting that bug. To fix it, I installed the attached patch into grep master on Savannah.

0001-grep-fix-grep-L-.-dev-null-bug.patch
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