gnu/167009: grep(1): GNU grep -q can exit !0 even if strings found

[David Wolfskill]

The following reply was made to PR gnu/167009; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org>
To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: gnu/167009: grep(1): GNU grep -q can exit !0 even if strings found
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:12:15 -0700

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 On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 09:08:12PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
 > FreeBSD PR gnu/167009:
 > > [strings -a /usr/local/bin/bison | grep -qw /usr/local fails]
 >=20
 > The peculiar thing is the shell, tcsh.
 >=20
 > What happens is that grep -q terminates early, so that strings receives
 > SIGPIPE when it tries to write further data. Whereas the exit status
 > of a pipeline in sh is always the exit status of the last element so
 > that your command has the expected behaviour, this is different in tcsh.
 > Tcsh looks backwards for a failing command if the last element has exit
 > status 0, and returns the 141 corresponding to SIGPIPE.
 > ...
 
 Huh.  Thanks for the explanation.  :-}
 
 Peace,
 david
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