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grep carriage return conflicts with output color highlighting

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From: Judson Wilson <wilson.judson <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: grep carriage return conflicts with output color highlighting
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 16:34:45 -0700

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I had trouble grepping carriage returns (grep $'\r' ) until I realized the
lines were printing blank.

If I grep something else on the line, the line prints fine. Putting 1 and 1
together I figured it was
the result highlighting conflicting with the carriage return color, and I
was able to get it to
work using --color=never.

test case:

[judson <at> localhost ~]$ echo $'a\nb\r\n\c\n' > carriage.txt
[judson <at> localhost ~]$ grep 'b' carriage.txt
b
[judson <at> localhost ~]$ grep $'\r' carriage.txt

[judson <at> localhost ~]$ grep --color=never $'\r' carriage.txt
b

As for my versions:

[judson <at> localhost ~]$ grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 2.9
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Mike Haertel and others, see <
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.

[judson <at> localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.43.8-1.fc15.i686

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Message #8 received at 12052 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: 12052 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12052: grep carriage return conflicts with output color
 highlighting
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 11:33:33 -0600

tags 12052 notabug
close 12052
stop

(triaging old bugs)


On 25/07/12 05:34 PM, Judson Wilson wrote:
> I had trouble grepping carriage returns (grep $'\r' ) until I realized the
> lines were printing blank.
> 

This is a 'grep' bug, but you wrote to "bugs-coreutils <at> gnu.org".
If you still encounter this bug, please write to "bug-grep <at> gnu.org".

As such, I'm closing this bug.

regards,
 - assaf

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