Jaroslav Skarvada wrote:
This new behaviour is not documented in manual page
The full manual says "When matching binary data, grep may treat non-text bytes
as line terminators." See:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/html_node/File-and-Directory-Selection.html
[1]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172405
[2]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1172804
Those are both essentially the same bug, right? And the symptoms are a wrong
diagnostic but the application still works? Anyway, I filed a bug report for
that application here:
http://bugs.debian.org/772901
because a portable shell script cannot use 'grep' on binary data -- POSIX says
the behavior is undefined. It's not clear that GNU grep needs a new option to
resurrect the 2.20 behavior, as the -a option suffices here just as well as any
new option would, and -a is more portable.
