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-rw-r--r--findutils/grep.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/findutils/grep.c b/findutils/grep.c
index 05bf8b8..8d2c915 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(&regex, argv[optind], reflags)) != 0) {