bug#21414: -F string with tailing newline always matches

2015-09-04 Thread Ian Brown - HNAS
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

bug#21414: -F string with tailing newline always matches

2015-09-08 Thread Ian Brown - HNAS
:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] 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