grep on Windows XP vs. Windows 7

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Published on 2010-04-21T02:26:07Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 2:34 UTC
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I am using grep from Gnuwin32 on Windows.

On Windows XP, the following

grep -e "foo" NUL

results in the following output

grep: NUL: invalid argument

On Windows 7, the same arguments result in no output at all.

Why is the output different between Windows XP and Windows 7?

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