Re: grep with file of patterns

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Al Buckingham <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:13:56 -0500
> 
> Only the last pattern in the text file of patterns is processed
>  
> C:\cygwin>grep --fixed-strings  --file=C:\patternlist.txt  C:\code.inc > 
> C:\GREP_OUT.txt
> Patternlist.txt contains two lines
> function
> class
> 
> Whatever pattern appears last in the file it is the one that is processed.
> All other patterns are ignored.

Cannot reproduce this here, but I don't have Cygwin installed.

Things to check/do:

 . upgrade to the latest Grep from Cygwin

 . make sure patternlist.txt has Unix-style LF-only end-of-line format

 . ask this on the Cygwin list