On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 13:22:48, Ondřej Surý wrote:
# No amount of options makes the grep find the text in the file $ ./grep-3.0-2.exe 'foo$’ crlf.txt $ ./grep-3.0-2.exe -U 'foo$' crlf.txt $ ./grep-3.0-2.exe -a 'foo$’ crlf.txt
Your commands are failing because you are not accounding for the carriage returns. as was said, this change was intentionally done for the purpose of making scripts MORE portable: https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2017-02/msg00155.html if you want to keep your grep command, you need to remove CR first: $ printf 'alpha\r\nbeta\r\n' > CRLF.txt $ tr -d '\r' < CRLF.txt | grep 'a$' alpha beta -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
