tags 39591 + moreinfo stop On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 8:58 AM Adams, John <john.ad...@anritsu.com> wrote: > Recent greps do not behave as documented with respect to after-context. In > the past I've been accustomed to -AX meaning print X lines of after context. > That is not how gnu grep is working now, but it is how it is documented. In > fact -AX, which I tested with a v3.4 that I build on Ubuntu 18, will print > X+1 lines of after-context. If you want 1, you must say -A0.
Thanks for the report. Can you provide a stand-alone example like the following to demonstrate the problem? I am unable to reproduce it so far, since this prints only one line of following context: $ printf '%s\n' a b c d e | grep -A1 c c d
