Re: Possible case-sensitive with -o option bug

[Benno Schulenberg]

smu johnson wrote:
> I found an interesting case of grep malfunctioning and I'm not
> sure if it's Cygwin's fault or greps...

In a sense: both.  It is a bug in grep, and Cygwin has neglected to 
apply a patch that most distributions apply.  Attached for your 
convenience.  It makes your example work here:

$ echo x.nsF | src/grep -i -o '[^ ]\+\.nsf$'
x.nsF

$ src/grep --version | head -1
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1

Benno

grep-2.5.1-oi.patch
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