[PATCH] grep directory loop reporting outputs extra newline

Andre Guibert de Bruet andy at siliconlandmark.com
Sun Feb 13 22:04:41 GMT 2005


This issue has been filed as bin/77466.

| Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
| Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote:

> I noticed a simple output regression between 4.10 and CURRENT wrt grep's 
> output when it encounters a recursive directory loop. CURRENT puts an extra 
> new-line when such a path is found. This adds complexity to scripts that rely 
> on the traditional way of doing things.
>
> The patch attached to this email can also be found at:
> http://bling.properkernel.com/freebsd/grep.recursive.patch
>
> Could this be committed?


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