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| -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. |