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Subject: | RE: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken |
Date: | Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:35:57 -0800 |
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From: | "Chris Milam" <chrismilam AT indx DOT com> |
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Using d2u on the text file worked as you indicated. My assertion that the -f option worked as I expected in a previous version was not true in that respect. I probably used a DOS-style editor on the file at some point and that exposed the problem that I described. My general impression is that most other text processing in Cygwin gracefully handles the differences in DOS/UNIX file formats; I agree with you about the pattern file being opened in text mode. Thanks for your help! Chris On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > 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 -- 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/
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