From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "John Hein" <3fbmqnhaz4@snkmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: --line-regexp option with null data
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 02:35:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1654709150.20150717053047@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6138-1437098652-808922@sneakemail.com>
Greetings, John Hein!
> cygwin grep is detecting the input as binary which seems to be
> overriding the 'match the whole line' behavior of --line-regexp. Get
> rid of --quiet to see that.
> That does seem like a bug in the cygwin implementation of grep to me.
Linux grep will do the same.
null byte = not a text.
Wrong encoding, not matching locale = not a text.
This is an upstream decision. It is arguable consistent… on Linux.
On Windows, of course, this is not the case.
> As a workaround for this simple example, you can add -a (aka --text)
> to force it to treat the input as text.
--
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Friday, July 17, 2015 05:29:11
Sorry for my terrible english...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-17 2:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-17 1:29 Steven Penny
2015-07-17 2:04 ` John Hein
2015-07-17 2:35 ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2015-07-17 3:04 ` Steven Penny
2015-07-17 3:26 ` Vince Rice
2015-07-17 3:44 ` Steven Penny
2015-07-17 11:55 ` Eric Blake
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