However, the case of
grep foo$ file
didn't work, due to a problem with the flags used in regular expression
compilation. The attached patch fixes this problem.
---patch-------
Index: grep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/busybox/grep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.30
diff -u -r1.30 grep.c
--- grep.c 2000/07/04 22:17:01 1.30
+++ grep.c 2000/07/10 08:57:04
@@ -141,8 +141,10 @@
if (argv[optind] == NULL)
usage(grep_usage);
- /* compile the regular expression */
- reflags = REG_NOSUB; /* we're not going to mess with sub-expressions
*/
+ /* compile the regular expression
+ * we're not going to mess with sub-expressions, and we need to
+ * treat newlines right. */
+ reflags = REG_NOSUB | REG_NEWLINE;
if (ignore_case)
reflags |= REG_ICASE;
if ((ret = regcomp(®ex, argv[optind], reflags)) != 0) {
---patch-------
Thanks, Matt, it works great.
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