Re: grep: -i option not working i cronjobs

[J. W.Andersen, Falster System Teknik]

Julian:

FYI, I found yet another bug in grep/fgrep/egrep:

When -i and -o options are used at the same time, the greps always outputs
the searched text i LOWERCASE ! This was not exactly whar I was looking
for, the whole idea was to get the filename as it was passed, so that I 
could
rename it to what I wanted.

So untill further I gave up the various greps and wrote a rather primitive
mini-grep just for my purpose - compared to grep it processes only one
file, and the only option known is -i. Not glamorous, and not very
sophisticated, but it does work for my purpose !

Cheers, Joe.-

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Julian Foad wrote:

> J. W.Andersen, Falster System Teknik wrote:
>
> > I have retrieved SuSE's source pack for the actual grep. As my C 
> > skille are pretty rusty (have not used them much
> > for the past 10 years ), I am somewhat uncertain as to where to begin 
> > and where to end. Could you maybe
> > give a hint as to which of the source modules are of primary 
> > interrest for this issue ?
>
>
> Look for "only_matching" and "match_icase" in src/grep.c.
>
> If you are willing to help fix this, please go to the GNU Savannah 
> project home page for Grep, at https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grep/ 
> and check out the latest source code from CVS, and in the bug and 
> patch databases there you will find things like a previous attempt to 
> fix it, and some tests for this behaviour.
>
> We will be glad to discuss your ideas and progress on this mailing list.
>
> - Julian