On Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:17:25, "Eric Blake (cygwin)" wrote:
> This build modifies the behavior of grep to no longer force text mode on
> binary-mounted file descriptors.
Works, thanks:
$ printf 'hello world\r\n' | grep . | od -tcx1
0000000 h e l l o w o r l d \r \n
68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0d 0a
> Since this includes pipelines by default, this means that if you pipe text
> data through a pipeline (such as the output of a windows program), you may
> need to insert a call to d2u to sanitize your input before passing it to grep.
This is certainly a good way to do it, but for more portable solution use tr:
$ printf 'hello world\r\n' | tr -d '\r' | od -tcx1
0000000 h e l l o w o r l d \n
68 65 6c 6c 6f 20 77 6f 72 6c 64 0a
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