grep-3.12

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

NEWS

• Noteworthy changes in release 3.12 (2025-04-10) [stable]

Bug fixes

Searching a directory with at least 100,000 entries no longer fails with "Operation not supported" and exit status 2. Now, this prints 1 and no diagnostic, as expected:

    $ mkdir t && cd t && seq 100000|xargs touch && grep -r x .; echo $?
    1

[bug introduced in grep 3.11]

• -mN where 1 < N no longer mistakenly lseeks to end of input merely because standard output is /dev/null.

Changes in behavior

The --unix-byte-offsets (-u) option is gone. In grep-3.7 (2021-08-14) it became a warning-only no-op. Before then, it was a Windows-only no-op.

On Windows platforms and on AIX in 32-bit mode, grep in some cases now supports Unicode characters outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit d470cdb21c.