Re: [Mingw-users] grep -f is MSDOS incapable

[Łukasz S. <luk...@ie...>]

Earnie <ea...@us...>
writes:

> Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> grep from MSYS includes CR as a part of pattern read from a file with a
>> -f option. This seems to be rather obvious bug, doesn't it? Is there any
>> magic trick to overcome it?
>>
>
> cat foo | tr -d "\r" > bar && mv bar foo
>
> If the file contains CR then that is a character in the file and MSYS 
> provides a pseudo UNIX environment which reads the CR as a character. 
> CRLF line endings and MSYS do not mix well.  Never has and MSYS has been 
> around for more years than I remember.

Thanks. I was sure I've read somewhere that mingw C runtime/libc (I am
not very familiar with these bits under Windows) supports the
"\n" <-> "\r\n" conversion automatically. That's why grep's behaviour
seemed odd to me. But if that is just the way things work it's OK.

-- 
Miłego dnia,
Łukasz Stelmach