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Re: Grep and matching end of line (anchoring)


Dave Korn wrote:

  What makes you think grep understands ^ notation to indicate control
chars?  It doesn't say so in the info page.  (It doesn't recognize [\r]
either.)

Umm, you're probably jumping to the wrong conclusion about the OP's intent.


He probably meant the literal character ^M, which you have to enter as ^V^M (control-v control-m) on the command line.

And you have to *pipe* the input into grep, not pass in the file as a command line (in textmode mounts, this will cause grep to read the file as a text file).

This works just fine:

cat test.dos.txt | grep 'ld^M$'

*if* you entered ^M on the commnand line as Control-V Control-M.


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