Hello. I'm trying to use grep to get the list of all non-binary files in a given folder. I tried with the 2.20 and the 3.11 release.
For some reason, grep is providing 2 false negatives when the list is huge. This issue does not happen if I break the grep input with "xargs -n X". Check below: [opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ grep -V grep (GNU grep) 3.11 Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later < https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Mike Haertel and others; see <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>. [opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ find -type f -not -path "./.patch_storage/*" -not -name "tfa_setup" -print0 2>> /tmp/error.list | xargs -0 -n 100 grep -Il '.' > /tmp/list1.list [opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ find -type f -not -path "./.patch_storage/*" -not -name "tfa_setup" -print0 2>> /tmp/error.list | xargs -0 grep -Il '.' > /tmp/list2.list [opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ diff /tmp/list1.list /tmp/list2.list 12268,12269d12267 < ./apex/images/apex_ui/psd/apex_5_ui.ai < ./apex/images/apex_ui/psd/apex-logo.ai [opc@oradiff-core dbhome_1]$ wc -l /tmp/list1.list /tmp/list2.list 23397 /tmp/list1.list 23395 /tmp/list2.list 46792 total The output should not show any difference. The same issue was also reproduced in grep 2.20. Thanks, Rodrigo
