Re: [Groff] pdfmom grep (was parallel text processing)

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Peter,

> The grep in pdfmom is returning a binary file hit when it encounters
> the diacritic in 
>
>   .ds pdf:look(pdf:bm1) L'étranger

What does locale(1) output for you where you run this pdfmom command?

> The solution is to pass the -a flag to grep.

How about 

    groff ... 2>&1 | LC_ALL=C grep '^\.ds' | groff ...

BTW, pdfmom has a bug shown by that strace command I suggested.

    system("groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\.ds' | groff ...");

That's a double-quoted Perl string so `\.' is escaping the dot and grep
sees a plain dot for `any character'.  The backslash needs doubling.

    $ perl -wl
    print "groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\.ds' | groff ...";
    print "groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\\.ds' | groff ...";
    ^D
    groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^.ds' | groff ...
    groff ... 2>&1 | grep '^\.ds' | groff ...
    $

> Question: why does grep treat the presence of the diacritic as cause
> for saying "Binary file (standard input) matches"?

Need `locale's output.  :-)

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Cheers, Ralph.
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