From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Altered behaviour of grep
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 09:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150324085531.GA20480@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9D9AC45310887B40A7245734E850FBE1125C0E20@FS-MX02.frontier.local>
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On Mar 24 08:07, Fergus Daly wrote:
> grep -Pl "\xmn"
> used to find files containing the ASCII character mn. For instance
> grep -PL "\x0d" or "\x0a" or usefully "\x00".
> This seems to have been lost with the current version.
> Is this an error? If not, can anybody tell me what new syntax will recover the old behaviour?
I just tested this on Cygwin and Fedora 21, both with grep 2.21:
$ cat x.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo ${0##*/}
$ grep -Pl '\x30' x.sh
x.sh
$ grep -Pl '\x0a' x.sh
$
Same result on both systems, so it finds characters in lines, but not
the line separator itself. If that worked before, this looks like an
upstream change to me.
A bit of digging shows this thread on the bug-grep mailing list:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2015-03/msg00015.html
And indeed, if I add a NUL byte to the file and search for it:
$ grep -Pl '\x0' x.sh
$ grep -aPl '\x0' x.sh
x.sh
This does not work for the CR or LF, though. You may want to discuss
this on the bug-grep ML.
Corinna
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