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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#23837: grep 2.7 EXIT STATUS inconsistency |
| Date: | Fri, 24 Jun 2016 10:36:46 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 |
On 06/24/2016 04:27 AM, O'Brien, Michael wrote:
Notice, the input file is fed to grep, and there's no output -- in other words, all records were (or "selected to be") excluded.
No, -v inverts the sense of matching, so that non-matching lines are selected. So there is no bug here.
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