Wayne Gemmell wrote:
I would expect the CR to be output verbatim
It is output verbatim, just as you expect. For example: $ printf 'messag1\rlogin\rmask' >test.log 503-day $ grep --color=never login test.log | od -c 0000000 m e s s a g 1 \r l o g i n \r m a 0000020 s k \n 0000023