bug#31182: Grep Not Matching with Caret in First Line of File

[Benno Schulenberg]

Budin, Clay wrote:
> It seems like grep isn't matching with a caret (start-of-line) on the first 
> line of a file.
Most likely you have a BOM (Byte Order Mark) on the first line.

(It would be cool, though, if grep could ignore that mark.)

Benno