Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/23/13:27:00
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 07:14:18PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 12:54:42PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:58:57PM +0100, Schaible, Jorg wrote:
>> >May be you should read the FAQ regarding text mounts ??
>>
>> sed is a fully ported utility. It is supposed to read CRLF text on
>> standard input and produce only UNIX-style newline endings on standard
>> output.
>
>There's one situation I know that it actually converts LF to CRLF.
>
>Say, you have a file foo:
>
>$ od -c foo
>0000000 h a l l o \n
>0000006
>
>and your currently in a textmode mounted directory, then
>
>$ sed -e 's/ll/nn/' foo > bar
>
>creates actually a CRLF file bar:
>
>$ od -c bar
>0000000 h a n n o \r \n
>0000007
>
>and that's defined behaviour. That isn't even going on in sed.
>The stdio redirection has already happened in the shell and sed
>is just using that file descriptor.
I stand corrected.
Sorry for the misinformation.
cgf
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