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   "'Tulasi Ram'" 	<rams DOT kommuri AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:13:08 -0400
Subject: RE: grep -f option is not working in release of grep (2.5.3-1)
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Tulasi Ram wrote on Thursday, June 04, 2009 3:04 AM:
> In the latest release of grep (2.5.3-1), the -f option (read search
> patters from a file) is not working for me. I have tried to search by
> providing pattern file.=20
>=20
> I have tried by using below command. It didn=92t work.
>=20
> grep -F -B 10 -A 0 -f FindDeploymentErrors_Error.txt CM_Setup2.log

If your patterns end with "$" to anchor to the end of a line, and one
file has DOS/Windows line endings (\r\n) while the other has unix line
endings (\n), the patterns will not match.

See what the following says.
$ file DeploymentErrors_Error.txt CM_Setup2.log

- Barry
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