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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Grep and matching end of line (anchoring)
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 19:31:18 -0000
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Nov 2004 19:31:18.0781 (UTC) FILETIME=[57CA32D0:01C4CE6E]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shankar Unni
> Sent: 19 November 2004 19:22

> 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.

  Yep, we've been through that already!  Ah, the perils of dashing off a
quick reply while there are still unread mails downthread!  Either that, or
you've got a really bad email service with a half-hour delay in it!

> 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).

  Yes, but I wasn't using a textmode mount, for exactly that reason.  I
generally despise textmode mounts these days.

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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