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-B fails with lseek: Invalid argument if it would start before the beginning of the file #16

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cirosantilli opened this issue Oct 9, 2023 · 0 comments
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-B fails with lseek: Invalid argument if it would start before the beginning of the file #16

cirosantilli opened this issue Oct 9, 2023 · 0 comments

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Would be better to just start from 0 instead in that case:

printf '\x01\x02\x03' > tmp

Good:

bgrep -B2 03 tmp

output:

tmp: 00000002
\x01\x02

Bad:

bgrep -B3 03 tmp

output:

tmp: 00000002
lseek: Invalid argument
@cirosantilli cirosantilli changed the title -B fail with lseek: Invalid argument if it would start before the beginning of the file -B fails with lseek: Invalid argument if it would start before the beginning of the file Oct 9, 2023
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