hi all!

we've got a job that uses grep that *occasionally* gives us
strange results.  a file is produced by piping output from
'print' to disc.  (so we're dealing with fixed-length ascii
file.)  this file is examined using grep to produce a 2nd
smaller subset file.  every so often, the file produced by
grep will have a 'split' record.  that is, some portion of
an input record (which looks perfectly normal) will end up
divided onto two records on the output file.  while i'm not
ruling out an escape character of some sort on the input
record, i think it's quite unlikely.  so, i'm wondering if
anyone has run into grep doing 'strange' things like
this?            - d

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