Hi Paul That is exactly what I am getting. It is probably acting quite correctly, the problem is that the shell executing those control characters is both confusing and a possible security risk. I've tried this in ksh, dash, bash and zsh and they all execute the control characters.
I think that they should be suppressed or escaped by default and a flag should be provided to allow them to be passed out unescaped. Maybe this has become a feature request... On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 at 22:13 Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Wayne Gemmell wrote: > > I would expect the CR to be output verbatim > > It is output verbatim, just as you expect. For example: > > $ printf 'messag1\rlogin\rmask' >test.log > 503-day $ grep --color=never login test.log | od -c > 0000000 m e s s a g 1 \r l o g i n \r m a > 0000020 s k \n > 0000023 > -- Regards Wayne
