Grep version 2.20
When using the ouput of another command to pass match strings into grep using
-F I was getting unexpected results as it was matching every line. If the
terminating newline is removed the grep started to work again.
Easy to work around but this is different behaviour from 2.12
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Sent: 07 September 2015 16:11
To: Ian Brown - HNAS
Cc: 21...@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21414: -F string with tailing newline always matches
Ian Brown - HNAS wrote:
> the pattern list used was the output of another command, it now needs to have
> the terminating ne