GNU bug report logs - #30652
Empty lines when using color and searching through files with DOS newline

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From: DrSlony <entertheyoni <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-grep <at> gnu.org
Subject: Empty lines when using color and searching through files with DOS
 newline
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:06:45 +0100

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Hello

Today I ran into this very old bug where grep returns empty lines when
grepping through files with DOS-style \r\n newlines.

To reproduce:
grep "foo.*" *.txt

Verify that it does in fact find things:
grep "popup.*" *.bas | od -c

This prints the lines correctly:
grep --color=never "foo.*" *.txt

I found a report of this issue at least from 2009:
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25539

I'm using GNU grep 3.1.

Kind regards
DrSlony

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: DrSlony <entertheyoni <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 30652 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Empty lines when using color and searching through files with DOS
 newline
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2019 23:34:16 -0800

> I found a report of this issue at least from 2009:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25539

This appears to be the same as Bug#30535 <https://bugs.gnu.org/30535> so I have
merged the two bug reports (Bug#30535 and Bug#30652).

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