Thanks for pointing out the seeming inconsistency. The documentation mentions
the issue but is perhaps not clear enough, so I installed the attached patch.
The input file contains NUL bytes and so is treated as binary data, and the grep
documentation (secton "File and Directory Selection",
Hi all,
as can be seen in this repository:
https://github.com/shlomif/gnu-grep-trailing-space-and-CR-on-riddles.he-false-match
GNU grep says a document it suspects to be binary matches without -a/--text and
doesn't match it or return results with that flag applied. perl sides with the
latter.
