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bug#69929: Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines?
From: |
David G. Pickett |
Subject: |
bug#69929: Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines? |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Mar 2024 13:06:13 +0000 (UTC) |
Perhaps the man page should warn users that such last lines are ignored. Is
there a mention under an option to include or disclude them?
On Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 05:08:08 PM EDT, Martin Schulte
<gnu@schrader-schulte.de> wrote:
Hello David!
Am Fri, 22 Mar 2024 20:42:12 +0000 (UTC) schrieb "David G. Pickett" via Bug
reports for GNU grep <bug-grep@gnu.org>:
> Most users consider a line at EOF lacking a trailing newline as still a line,
> but perhaps some do not?
Well, POSIX doesn't:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_206
The definition may cause trouble with shell's read - e.g. when reading a file
created on Windows with notepad where it is easy to accidentally create an
incomplete line (compared to vi where I don't know an easy way).
Best regards,
Martin
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