> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Shankar Unni
> Sent: 19 November 2004 19:22
> Dave Korn wrote:
>
> > What makes you think grep understands ^ notation to
> indicate control
> > chars? It doesn't say so in the info page. (It doesn't
> recognize [\r]
> > either.)
>
> Umm, you're probably jumping to the wrong conclusion about
> the OP's intent.
Yep, we've been through that already! Ah, the perils of dashing off a
quick reply while there are still unread mails downthread! Either that, or
you've got a really bad email service with a half-hour delay in it!
> And you have to *pipe* the input into grep, not pass in the file as a
> command line (in textmode mounts, this will cause grep to
> read the file as a text file).
Yes, but I wasn't using a textmode mount, for exactly that reason. I
generally despise textmode mounts these days.
cheers,
DaveK
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