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Grep 2.5c: matching multiple patterns broken


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Grep 2.5c: matching multiple patterns broken
Date: 07 Mar 2001 17:19:16 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.100

If one of the patterns specified by -e matches, none of the other patterns
are even tried:

$ echo -e 'a\nb\na' | grep -e a -e b
a
a
$ echo -e 'a\nb' | grep -e a -e b
a
b

Andreas.

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