Greetings, Ondřej Surý!
> the grep package in version 3.0-2 fails to strip CR characters from the
> input, the reproducer is fairly simple:
The change to not do text mode conversion any longer was delibrate and in line
with changes to other GNU tools.
> ```
> $ echo -e 'foo\r\n' | grep -a
On 12/17/2018 8:05 AM, Steven Penny wrote:
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:22:48, Ondřej Surý wrote:
# No amount of options makes the grep find the text in the file
$ ./grep-3.0-2.exe 'foo$’ crlf.txt
$ ./grep-3.0-2.exe -U 'foo$' crlf.txt
$ ./grep-3.0-2.exe -a 'foo$’ crlf.txt
Your commands are failing
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:22:48, Ondřej Surý wrote:
# No amount of options makes the grep find the text in the file
$ ./grep-3.0-2.exe 'foo$’ crlf.txt
$ ./grep-3.0-2.exe -U 'foo$' crlf.txt
$ ./grep-3.0-2.exe -a 'foo$’ crlf.txt
Your commands are failing because you are not accounding for the
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
Hi Michael,
ah, there was a similar change for sed, that’s why I missed it when searching
for the change.
I believe this is slightly different case, as the pipes were only included in
the example I sent. The grep fails to match CRLF to $ even if physical files
are involved and `-a` option is
On Dec 17 12:55, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> [Sorry, I am not subscribed, so I can’t add proper References: headers here.]
>
> > Cygwin is a POSIX platform not a pure Windows one.
> > If you need to strip CR character, d2u of dos2unix package is the tool.
>
> I am not claiming that Cygwin is a pure
Dear Ondrej,
this has been discussed to quite some length and detail more than once on this
list. The initial message of a lengthy discussion (> 30 replies) on the topic
is here:
https://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-06/msg00040.html
Best regards,
Michael
Intel Deutschland GmbH
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[Sorry, I am not subscribed, so I can’t add proper References: headers here.]
> Cygwin is a POSIX platform not a pure Windows one.
> If you need to strip CR character, d2u of dos2unix package is the tool.
I am not claiming that Cygwin is a pure Windows platform, but having to run
everything
Am 17.12.2018 um 12:09 schrieb Ondřej Surý:
Hi,
the grep package in version 3.0-2 fails to strip CR characters from the input,
the reproducer is fairly simple:
```
$ echo -e 'foo\r\n' | grep -a 'foo$'
$
```
Perhaps the grep fails to detect it’s running on Windows because of cygwin
emulates
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