grep version 2.20 (and later) receive: grep: unrecognized option '--mmap'

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Issue

  • grep --mmap or zfgrep --mmap receive following error message after updating grep to version 2.20 (or later)

    $ grep --mmap string /dev/null
    grep: unrecognized option '--mmap'
    Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
    Try 'grep --help' for more information.
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7

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