Bug in grep.exe

From	Nicholas Hawthorn <nickhawthorn2@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	gnu.utils.bug
Subject	Bug in grep.exe
Date	2017-08-26 12:03 +1200
Message-ID	<mailman.13822.1503725826.21957.bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org> (permalink)

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Say we make a one line text file called "a" that contains
    w  CR  LF

and then give the command:
    grep -v "<" < a > b

File "b" will consist of:
    w  LF

In effect, grep has removed the CR. The bug was first found in a 66 line
.bat file where it was a bit of a nuisance.

For what it's worth grep.exe on my system is 80412 bytes and is dated 23
Jan 2014.

Best wishes,
Nick Hawthorn

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