grep and the -f switch

[Roy Jensen]

I've created a text file (in Windows) with the text patterns I wish to
search for. Using the -f switch, grep only searches for the last
pattern in the file. If there is a blank line at the end, grep finds
nothing.

grep -a -A 4 -f pattern.txt my.file > output.txt

Any suggestions to get this to work?

Thanks,
Roy Jensen

Roy Jensen
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