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Diffstat (limited to 'findutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | findutils/grep.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c index 05bf8b8cf..8d2c915be 100644 --- a/findutils/grep.c +++ b/findutils/grep.c @@ -141,8 +141,10 @@ extern int grep_main(int argc, char **argv) if (argv[optind] == NULL) usage(grep_usage); - /* compile the regular expression */ - reflags = REG_NOSUB; /* we're not going to mess with sub-expressions */ + /* compile the regular expression + * we're not going to mess with sub-expressions, and we need to + * treat newlines right. */ + reflags = REG_NOSUB | REG_NEWLINE; if (ignore_case) reflags |= REG_ICASE; if ((ret = regcomp(®ex, argv[optind], reflags)) != 0) { |