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From: Shankar Unni <shankarunni AT netscape DOT net>
Subject: Re: Grep and matching end of line (anchoring)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:21:54 -0800
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Dave Korn wrote:

>   What makes you think grep understands ^ notation to indicate control
> chars?  It doesn't say so in the info page.  (It doesn't recognize [\r]
> either.)

Umm, you're probably jumping to the wrong conclusion about the OP's intent.

He probably meant the literal character ^M, which you have to enter as 
^V^M (control-v control-m) on the command line.

And you have to *pipe* the input into grep, not pass in the file as a 
command line (in textmode mounts, this will cause grep to read the file 
as a text file).

This works just fine:

    cat test.dos.txt | grep 'ld^M$'

*if* you entered ^M on the commnand line as Control-V Control-M.


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