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Re: Win32 grep fails with -oi options
From: |
Jonny |
Subject: |
Re: Win32 grep fails with -oi options |
Date: |
Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:54:22 GMT |
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I wrote:
> Version 2.5.1a of GNU grep for Win32 doesn't work when the -o (show
> matching part of line only) and -i (ignore case) options are specified
> together.
>
> For example:
>
> echo HELLO THERE|grep -oi "hello"
>
> should return
>
> HELLO
>
> but it returns nothing.
>
> I was told that this has been fixed in the CVS version.
>
> Please could someone tell me how to checkout the CVS version so that I
> can (attempt to) build it. Or, preferably, please point me to a Win32
> binary which has the fix included.
I got the nightly CVS snapshot from
http://www.dal-acm.ca/~taa/grep/grep-2.5.1-cvs.tar.gz
and compiled it using MinGW GCC (though I had to remove the reference to
S_ISSOCK on line 1167 of grep.c).
The problem is now solved.
Regards,
Jonny