On 08/03/2017 06:28 AM, Santiago R.R. wrote:
the -o option, which is supposed to return only the matching
parts of the search, fails:
It's not failing. It's behaving as documented: -o outputs only nonempty
matches. Otherwise, commands like 'grep -o "a*"' would output a separate
line for each
(Sorry if it's already filed, but I am unable to find it in the
bug archives)
Hi,
I'd like to forward this bug reported to Debian some years ago.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532541
It still happens in 3.1.
Quoting the original report:
When grepping for empty lines in a tex