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bug#69929: Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines?


From: Dennis Clarke
Subject: bug#69929: Can grep -q report matches in incomplete lines?
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:15:28 -0400
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 3/22/24 16:42, David G. Pickett via Bug reports for GNU grep wrote:
>
> Most users consider a line at EOF lacking a trailing newline as
> still a line, but perhaps some do not?
>



Good ol "wc" says it is not a line.  I would go with what "wc" claims.



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Dennis Clarke
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