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Re:Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field by arthur2e5 on Monday March 29, 2021 @06:51AM (#26619838)
With NUL-sepearated output instead of line output people are doing fine. It's unstructured for sure, but how much structure can you put into something as general as grep?
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Re:Terminal escape sequences in Git commit email field by philsnow on Monday March 29, 2021 @01:06PM (#26624906)
grep can emit structured GrepResult records that include things like

  - the pattern that was searched for
    - the search options from the invocation (case, line folding, etc)
  - the text of the matched segment
  - the byte range of the matched segment within the file
  - the line number(s) of the matched segment within the file
  - the file name
  - contents of any (named) capture groups from the search pattern
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