how to find crlf line separators with git?

Question

as I want to commit to git using intellij, I get a message `You are about to commit CRLF line separators to the Git repository` and I am given 2 options: - fix and commit (runs `git config --global core.autocrlf`) - commit as is I would like to see where those line separators are before I do anything else. How can I do that with git or intellij? (solutions using only git are preferred).

Accepted Answer

You could use `git grep` via the command line to search for files containing the windows style newline characters.

Using the git bash you can find all files which contain a `\r` character via the following command (bash only!):

```
git grep -Il $'\r'
```

Or alternativly (which should work for all shell types - except windows ones):

```
git grep -Il '<CTRL + M>'
```

This will actually display as a newline in your shell, but as long as you wrap it into quotes it will work.

And finally for the windows CLI (tested with CMD and PowerShell):

```
git grep -Il "\r"
```

Used options

- `-I` excludes binary files from the match

- `-l` shows only the file names with matches, rather than all matches

Also, if you want to restrict your search on a number of files you can use the `--cached` option, which will only search in files you have on your index.

You can read the documentation for more information.

how to find crlf line separators with git?

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