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Re: How to supply "raw" bytes to git grep?

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Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date
Sep 18, 2008, 16:18 UTC
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<200809181818.42745.johan@herland.net>
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On Thursday 18 September 2008, Jacob Helwig wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 08:28, Johan Herland wrote:
> > I wanted to list all text files in my repo which contain carriage
> > returns, so I tried the following command-line:
> >
> >        git grep --cached -I -l -e <CR>
> >
> > where <CR> is some magic incantation that I've yet to figure out.
> > I've tried all the obvious cases (\r, 0x0d, \015, etc.), but none
> > of them seem to DWIM...
>
> Inserting a literal carriage return seems to do the trick for me, in
> bash.
>
> git grep --cached -I -l -e <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-M>
Thanks. That's exactly the incantation I was looking for. ;)
...Johan
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Johan Herland, <johan@herland.net>
www.herland.net
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