tags 25513 notabug thanks On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 8:03 AM, Eric Hoffman <ehoff...@positronaccess.com> wrote: > grep is behaving differently when outputting with --color=auto when lines are > ending with CRLF (like Windows text files). > > The issue is that if I have a file with CRLF line terminator, for example, a > file named test.txt, containing: > Line 1<CR><LF> > Line 2<CR><LF> > Line 3<CR><LF> > > Or: > > $od -c test.txt > 0000000 L i n e 1 \r \n L i n e 2 \r \n > 0000020 L i n e 3 \r \n > 0000030 > > Then, If I type: > $ grep --color=auto "." test.txt ...
Thank you for the report. I too see that behavior, but it is not a problem with grep. It is due to the way carriage returns are rendered. Here, even without --color, you can see that the three matched line render as empty: $ printf 'line%s\r\n' 1 2 3 | grep . However, if you pipe that result through cat -A, you see that grep is working as required: $ printf 'line%s\r\n' 1 2 3 | grep .|cat -A line1^M$ line2^M$ line3^M$ So I'm closing this bug.
