Hi I have an issue with files that contain carriage returns. I have log files that contain user input which sometime has carriage returns. The EOL characters are fine so I can't throw mac2unix at the problem.
The issue is that when grep outputs the CR it follows the CR to the beginning of the output buffer and overwrites the contents of the output buffer. E.g. the file, test.log with the following contents. messag1^Mlogin^Mmask The following command $>/grep --color=never login test.log Outputs as follows $>maskng1 This seems like a security concern as you may be able to mask activity in logs just by inserting CR in place. It would be superficial but it would fool basic grep based logfile processing. I would expect the CR to be output verbatim so as not to confuse the reader of the output. -- Regards Wayne