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Authored by jhb on Aug 9 2024, 6:58 PM.
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Summary

This matches the documented behavior in the manpage as well as the
default behavior on macOS.

PR: 280676
Reported by: Radosław Piliszek <radoslaw.piliszek@gmail.com>

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jhb requested review of this revision.Aug 9 2024, 6:58 PM

It's fine with me, but I note there's a test in contrib/netbsd-tests/usr.bin/grep/t_grep.sh that assumes the default here that will start failing

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Aug 20 2024, 8:57 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.