bug#44713: closed (grep -F not working)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: grep -F not working Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 20:53:18 +0000

I’m using grep deployed with Git for Windows.

This used to allow me to detect if an environment variable contained a substring (case insensitive).

 

echo abc | "C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\grep.exe" -iqF d

if errorlevel 1 (echo Not present) else (echo Present)

 

However, the -F option is no longer working.

I need it because the string being searched for may contain special characters for regex. I need a simple string search not pattern matching.

 

Errorlevel is now something like 34304, and it prints to stderr:

      0 [main] grep 747 cygwin_exception::open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to grep.exe.stackdump

You can easily obtain a stack trace by running the command above.

 

Keith Robertson

R&D Core Platform

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krobertson@vmware.com

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> On 11/17/20 12:53 PM, Keith Robertson wrote:
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> Looks like a configuration problem of some sort. I think you'll need to contact 
> whoever packaged Git for Windows for you, as the grep developers generally don't 
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