On 9/27/23 21:40, Jamie Landeg-Jones wrote:
When using color=always and a regex of '.' (for example), output lines
are duplicated.
$ grep --version
grep (BSD grep, GNU compatible) 2.6.0-FreeBSD
E.G.:
$ grep --color=always . /etc/fstab
Cheers, Jamie
I think this is what we want:
https://people.freebsd.org/~kevans/grep-color.diff
Basically, for --color with . we actually get each individual character
reported, and we can't really coalesce that. (Well, we could, but I'll
leave that for future improvement). Once you hit 32 matches in the same
line, we dump out the first set of matches then check again for any more
that just didn't fit the first time. Unfortunately, that logic wasn't
prepared to avoid terminating the first time in case we have more
matches to output, so we'd terminate, then refill our matches with the
remainder of the line and output the leading context again + terminate
again.
Thanks,
Kyle Evans
