On 2016-03-21 14:56, Achim Gratz wrote: > Gordon Grimes writes: >> % wc -l FILE >> 48786 >> % grep . FILE >> 2240 >> >> Very wrong. > > You're aware that "." doesn't match empty lines?
Agreed, that is relevant, but there's the difference between v2.21 and v2.24... On a whim and given that we don't know what FILE is, I'd give this a go: % LANG=C grep . FILE Cheers, Peter -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple