Grep can't match characters before EOL marker without ^M

[David Karr]

My cygwin version appears to be "2.9.0(0.318/5/3)".

If I have a text file that has a line that ends with "abc", and I try
to grep for "abc$", it doesn't match. I find that it does match "$"
and "abc^M$".

I've read some of the documentation about line endings in Cygwin.

I need to write some scripting that works on both Cygwin and Linux.
What do I need to do here?

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[Brian Inglis]

If I have a text file that has a line that ends with "abc", and I try to grep
for "abc$", it doesn't match. I find that it does match "$" and "abc^M$".
I've read some of the documentation about line endings in Cygwin.
I need to write some scripting that works on both Cygwin and Linux.
What do I need to do here?

Use grep '...[[:cntrl:]]\?$' to match, d2u|dos2unix or sed 's/\r$//' to remove.

[cyg Simple]

Post by David Karr
My cygwin version appears to be "2.9.0(0.318/5/3)".
If I have a text file that has a line that ends with "abc", and I try
to grep for "abc$", it doesn't match. I find that it does match "$"
and "abc^M$".
I've read some of the documentation about line endings in Cygwin.
I need to write some scripting that works on both Cygwin and Linux.
What do I need to do here?

Consider running dos2unix on files containing ^M at line ends.

You might wish to test for a binary file before running dos2unix on it
though or even using sed to substitute ^M$ to remove them. Binary data
could contain a CRLF that would destroy the binary file if CR is removed.

Also consider doing the same instruction regardless of the OS because
you never know when your script meets a file from a different OS. In the
business world many people send files from Windows to *NIX and vice
versa. If a text file from *NIX is sent to a user of Windows be sure
that the file contains the appropriate CRLF or the user will just see
garbage unless they are a DevOPS person who knows how to deal with the
file. I can't count the number of times I've had to resend a file or
help someone adjust one just because the Windows default for .txt files
is Notepad which uses the CR to advance to the next line of the GUI.