Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: RE: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:01:57 -0800 Message-ID: From: "Chris Milam" To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id jAHI1SrP030009 Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 10:00 AM To: Chris Milam Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: FW: 1.5.18: grep -f option broken On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Chris Milam wrote: > In the latest release of grep (2.5.1a-2), I believe that the -f option > (read expressions from a file) is no longer working. > [snip manpage quote] > However, it appears that no match of any input is ever found for any > set of strings in the file specified by -f. This functionality was > working in an earlier release (I regret to say that I cannot remember > the last time it was working but it was a release within the last year, I think). I was only able to reproduce this behavior if the script had DOS line endings on a binmode mount (which you have). Run the script through d2u and try again. It's arguably a bug in grep that the pattern file should be opened in text mode. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/