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Date:	Fri, 18 Aug 2000 05:05:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject:	Re: CR/LF and read is shell scripts
To:	"Eirik_Nordbrøden" <eirik DOT nordbroden AT scandpower DOT no>,
	cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- Eirik_Nordbrøden <eirik DOT nordbroden AT scandpower DOT no> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have just installed cygwin on my NT workstation and have a problem with a
> shell script. The script generates a temporary file by the use of the echo
> statement and later on the content is evaluated with a cat and consecutive
> read statements. The problem is that the generated file contains CRLF at the
> end of each line, but the read statement only recognises the LF and therefore
> adds CR to the last variable read. I do not want to change the script so I
> wonder if this is an installation problem or if there are some other way to
> get around it. At installation I choose the option to treat all text files as
> MS Dos files.
> 

Output pasted into a mail from `cygcheck -s -r -v' would be useful.  Post it to
the list not to me.  BTW, I'm guessing that you're using non-Cygwin tools
somewhere along the way.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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