Dear Ondrej,
> # Use —text —> finds the text OK
Afaik -a / --text only suppresses this behavior (from man grep):
... when grep discovers that a file is binary it suppresses any
further
output, and instead outputs either a one-line message saying
that a binary file matches, or no message
if there is no match.
It does not influence if the file is opened as text or binary file. I agree
that the documentation to -U in man grep explicitly says that if a file is a
text file, CRs are stripped, so that is a documentation bug. This should be
updated (as Corinna already suggested).
I still think that it would also make sense to:
- have for grep, sed and awk at least an option to strip CRs
- have an environment variable to make this option default
But otherwise I must admit that handling scripts intended for Unix works very
well with Cygwin so the decision made appear to be good decisions, even if they
are sometimes not what one wants.
Best regards,
Michael
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