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

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 18, 2008, 16:31 UTC
Message-ID: <gatvp0$kl0$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809181728.18597.johan@herland.net>

Johan Herland wrote:

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> 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...

Why not use _literal_ CR; of course protecting it by piockung it by shell as end of command by quites, for example

  $ git grep --cached -I -l -e '
  '

It works for me (bash).

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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