On 14.5.2015 17:42, Vince Rice wrote: > uname says "CYGWIN_NT-6.1 machinename 1.7.35(0.287/5/3) 2015-03-04 > 12:07 i686 Cygwin”. I’m running grep 2.21.2, which cygcheck -c says > is OK. > > Does Cygwin’s grep support Unicode files? The output from a SQL > Server SQL Agent job is a Unicode file, i.e. if you look at it in a > hex editor every other character is 00 because each character is > taking up two bytes. The filename itself is fine, it’s the contents > that is Unicode. I can’t get grep to work on it, either with or > without -a.
That sounds like UTF-16. Have you tried funneling it through `iconv` first? > > This may not be a Cygwin-specific question, but I haven’t been able > to find anything after several Google searches, including the > archives, and neither --help nor the man page for grep references > Unicode. > > By default I have neither LC_ALL nor LC_COLLATE set. > > A pointer to a better search or a website that explains this would be > great, or if it can’t currently be done, that’s OK, too. > -- VH
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