On 6/4/20 7:06 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > I would argue that a empty file has a single empty line.
No, an empty file has no lines. A single empty line would be a file of size 1, containing just a newline byte. > Besides it completely breaks the "is foo not in file" functionality. That's not what -v is for. -v asks "is not-FOO in file". If you want "is FOO not in file", use -L.