From: "arrl via cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Grep can't match characters before EOL marker without ^M
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2018 18:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00e694f3-1e50-24be-95dd-8b6bf2bb1323@aol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA5t8Vrr_GcYqaLq-1noAj7mxQ7KsMnd43k10-ef1anuCr60Tg@mail.gmail.com>
On 1/3/2018 12:31 PM, David Karr wrote:
> My cygwin version appears to be "2.9.0(0.318/5/3)".
>
> If I have a text file that has a line that ends with "abc", and I try
> to grep for "abc$", it doesn't match. I find that it does match "$"
> and "abc^M$".
>
> I've read some of the documentation about line endings in Cygwin.
>
> I need to write some scripting that works on both Cygwin and Linux.
> What do I need to do here?
>
Consider running dos2unix on files containing ^M at line ends.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-03 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-03 17:31 David Karr
2018-01-03 17:56 ` Brian Inglis
2018-01-03 18:45 ` arrl via cygwin [this message]
2018-01-04 19:51 ` cyg Simple
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