John Pyrce wrote: > Thanks for replying. I finally found my problem: I recently updated to > the latest version of cygwin and probably changed the choice for new > line encoding by mistake; you get prompted to choose between unix/dos > style during installation and I didn't remember what I had chosen > originally. So apparently grep now viewed the existing pattern file > provided with "-f" as a stream of bytes with no lines, and that never > matched anything. When I re-wrote the pattern file with a different > line return encoding, patterns again matched. Ah well.
Ah, well. Thanks for letting us know how it turned out. So seldom do we hear how things conclude. :-) Bob
