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RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: "'Hughes, Bill'" <Bill dot Hughes at cox dot co dot uk>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 16:20:21 +0100
- Subject: RE: Bogus assumption prevents d2u/u2d/conv/etal working on mixed files
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Hughes, Bill
> Sent: 06 April 2004 14:59
> > Sent: 06 April 2004 14:10 From: fergus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ..snip..
>
> >
> > Please can you tell me how to grep for an ASCII 00 (and for
> > that matter
> > anything from ASCII 1B to 1F, and 7F to FF)?
> I'm no expert but
> grep [\x00] foo.bar
> might be what you're after.
Nope. That will grep for a lower case x or a zero:
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> echo "abcxdef" > test1.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> echo "0123456" > test2.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> grep [\x61] test?.txt
test1.txt:abcxdef
test2.txt:0123456
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> grep [\x16] test?.txt
test1.txt:abcxdef
test2.txt:0123456
grep is not printf, and an escaped shell metacharacter is not the same
thing as a C-compiler escaped control char sequence in a string literal:
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> grep [\r] test?.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> grep [\n] test?.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> echo >>test1.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> grep [\n] test?.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> grep [\r] test?.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin> wc -l test1.txt
2 test1.txt
DKAdmin@ubik /swtools/windows/bin>
cheers,
DaveK
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