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Subject: RE: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:01:57 -0800
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Thanks! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu] 
Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:00 AM
To: Chris Milam
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Subject: Re: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken

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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