Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:00:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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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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