Subject: bug#75806: Trailing spaces; pattern "\s" before "[[:cntrl:]]" faulty

From: Andreas BROCKMANN <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:27:13 +0000

Hi,

The 1st command below correctly reports trailing spaces, for Unix and Windows format files.
The 2nd one incorrectly reports all lines.

  grep -sHn -i " [[:cntrl:]]*$" *.vhd
  grep -sHn -i "\s[[:cntrl:]]*$" *.vhd

grep -V
grep (GNU grep) 3.0
Packaged by Cygwin (3.0-2)
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

cmd --help
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19045.5371]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Kind Regards
Brockmann

Andreas Brockmann, Dipl.-Ing.
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Strategic Business Segment Aircraft Systems
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