I had trouble grepping carriage returns (grep $&#39;\r&#39; ) until I realized the lines were printing blank. <div><br></div><div>If I grep something else on the line, the line prints fine. Putting 1 and 1 together I figured it was</div>
<div>the result highlighting conflicting with the carriage return color, and I was able to get it to</div><div>work using --color=never.<div><br></div><div>test case:</div><div><br></div><div><div>[judson@localhost ~]$ echo $&#39;a\nb\r\n\c\n&#39; &gt; carriage.txt</div>
<div>[judson@localhost ~]$ grep &#39;b&#39; carriage.txt </div><div>b</div><div>[judson@localhost ~]$ grep $&#39;\r&#39; carriage.txt </div><div><br></div><div>[judson@localhost ~]$ grep --color=never $&#39;\r&#39; carriage.txt </div>
<div>b</div></div><div><br></div><div>As for my versions:</div><div><div><br></div><div><div>[judson@localhost ~]$ grep -V</div><div>grep (GNU grep) 2.9</div><div>Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.</div><div>
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later &lt;<a href="http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html</a>&gt;.</div><div>This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.</div><div>There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Written by Mike Haertel and others, see &lt;<a href="http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS">http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS</a>&gt;.</div><div><br></div><div>[judson@localhost ~]$ uname -r</div>
<div>2.6.43.8-1.fc15.i686</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>