[ you sent off-list, I presume inadvertently ]
Hi Alexandre,
* Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 09:41:58PM CEST:
> >>> "RW" == Ralf Wildenhues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> RW> So, OK to apply this patch, which allows longlin2.test to pass on
> RW> AIX <= 5.1 (5.2 seems to ha
AIX grep has a 2048 character limit on the input lines. Apparently, it
optimizes plain (non-regex) patterns, which enables it to work on longer
strings; but with non-plain patterns, it does not truncate the line, but
fail hard:
$ grep grepme Makefile.am >/dev/null; echo $?
0
$ grep .grepme Makefi
