Re: grep 3.0-2 not stripping CRs on Windows

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Am 17.12.2018 um 12:09 schrieb Ondřej Surý:
> Hi,
>
> the grep package in version 3.0-2 fails to strip CR characters from the input, the reproducer is fairly simple:
>
> ```
> $ echo -e 'foo\r\n' | grep -a 'foo$'
> $
> ```
>
> Perhaps the grep fails to detect it’s running on Windows because of cygwin emulates Linux so well? :)

Cygwin is a POSIX platform not a pure Windows one.
If you need to strip CR character, d2u of dos2unix package is the  tool.

PS: cygcheck.out should be attached to the mail not inline, as inline 
screw up any word search of the mailing list.

Regards
Marco


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