Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/11/17/13:01:33
Thanks!
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From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:00 AM
To: Chris Milam
Cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken
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
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