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authorJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2020-12-23 09:30:19 -0800
committerJim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>2020-12-25 08:44:07 -0800
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grep: use of --unix-byte-offsets (-u) now elicits a warning
* NEWS (Change in behavior): Mention this. * src/grep.c (main): Warn about each use of obsolete --unix-byte-offsets (-u). * doc/grep.in.1 (-u): Remove its documentation.
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* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Changes in behavior
+
+ Use of the --unix-byte-offsets (-u) option now evokes a warning.
+ Since 3.1, this Windows-only option has had no effect.
+
** Bug fixes
Preprocessing N patterns would take at least O(N^2) time when too many