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

[Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>]

On Thursday 18 September 2008, Jacob Helwig wrote:
> 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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