On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chris Milam wrote: > In the latest release of grep (2.5.1a-2), I believe that the -f option > (read expressions from a file) is no longer working. > [snip manpage quote] > However, it appears that no match of any input is ever found for any set > of strings in the file specified by -f. This functionality was working > in an earlier release (I regret to say that I cannot remember the last > time it was working but it was a release within the last year, I think).
I was only able to reproduce this behavior if the script had DOS line endings on a binmode mount (which you have). Run the script through d2u and try again. It's arguably a bug in grep that the pattern file should be opened in text mode. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/