grep 1.6 mishandles incomplete lines

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1 total messages Started by Paul Eggert Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:43

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Author: Paul Eggert
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:43

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grep 1.6 mishandles files that end in a non-newline character:
it silently pretends there was a trailing newline.  The following
shell scenario illustrates the problem.  `cat' and traditional `grep'
output the incomplete line as-is; but GNU grep outputs a newline at the end.

$ echo -n x >x
$ cat x
x$ grep x x # GNU grep
x
$ /bin/grep x x # traditional grep
x$

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