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bug#25513: Issue grepping lines ending with CRLF with --color=auto.
From: |
Eric Hoffman |
Subject: |
bug#25513: Issue grepping lines ending with CRLF with --color=auto. |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:03:49 +0000 |
Hello!
grep is behaving differently when outputting with --color=auto when lines are
ending with CRLF (like Windows text files).
The issue is that if I have a file with CRLF line terminator, for example, a
file named test.txt, containing:
Line 1<CR><LF>
Line 2<CR><LF>
Line 3<CR><LF>
Or:
$od -c test.txt
0000000 L i n e 1 \r \n L i n e 2 \r \n
0000020 L i n e 3 \r \n
0000030
Then, If I type:
$ grep --color=auto "." test.txt
That is, I tell grep to display every lines containing at least one character
(that is, every lines), I get on terminal output just 3 empty lines. However,
if I type:
$ grep "." test.txt
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Then I do have every lines on the output.
I tried on both SSH and direct console with same result.
On my SSH terminal, I captured output, and what I see is
<CR><LF>
<CR><LF>
<CR><LF>
Here are a few variations:
- I tried with a longer file, like 100 lines, and I do get some of the lines
printed, but truncated to the terminal screen width.
- The issue here was with printing every lines, but I do get the same result as
long as I match any end of lines, like grep "2.*" test.txt, or even "grep
2[[:cntrl:]]$" test.txt
- The problem is there only when
This was with grep 2.27 (also tried 2.16, which I had before upgrading to 2.27).
Regards,
Eric
- bug#25513: Issue grepping lines ending with CRLF with --color=auto.,
Eric Hoffman <=