X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Tischler, Ron" To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 01:19:25 +0000 Subject: Changed line terminator behavior for grep Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com It appears that grep's line termination behavior has changed. Version 2.5.4-2 of grep ends lines with carriage return and linefeed. Version 2.6.3-1 of grep only puts a linefeed. I'm curious to know if this is a bug that will be fixed, or if this is the = desired new behavior. I'm running both of them in the same place (a Vista machine). If that doesn't sound right, here are more details. I had previously insta= lled Cygwin 1.6 last year. Today, I wanted to get something else from Cygw= in, so that automatically updated things to Cygwin 1.7.5. Then, test cases= that compared output files against previous reference files stopped workin= g. The difference was that the old ones had a carriage return and line fee= d on each line, and the new ones only had a linefeed. I noticed that this = only affected tests where the output files were created by grep. Sure enou= gh, I went back to Cygwin, and saw that there were two choices for grep (as= shown above). I reinstalled the older version of grep from Cygwin and the= tests started working again. I believe this shows that it is a difference= in the behaviors of the two versions of grep, when either one is simply in= stalled from Cygwin without doing anything tricky. I don't know if this has been reported before. I tried to figure out how t= o search the Cygwin archives, but didn't succeed.=20 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple