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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2016-12-07 12:17:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2016-12-07 12:20:26 -0800 |
| commit | 136a8987b003c2cee4c2419e2bf870ff0836f8f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 8afc20215e6b3a4c0f882346f1d9c24e78a9f486 | |
| parent | c5ddfc699fa1e1da3f490b870292e0b64117aae4 (diff) | |
| download | grep-136a8987b003c2cee4c2419e2bf870ff0836f8f9.tar.gz | |
maint: clarify early-exit news for 2.27
* NEWS: Mention early-exit options to avoid confusion. See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grep-devel/2016-12/msg00007.html
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ GNU grep NEWS -*- outline -*- final byte of which is the digit "7". [bug introduced in grep-2.19] - grep by default now reads all of standard input if it is a pipe, + Unless an early-exit option like -q, -l, -L, -m, or -f /dev/null is + specified, grep now reads all of a non-seekable standard input, even if this cannot affect grep's output or exit status. This works better with nonportable scripts that run "PROGRAM | grep PATTERN >/dev/null" where PROGRAM dies when writing into a broken pipe. |