Subject: RE: echo is wrong...
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

8 Apr 1998 12:34:40 -0700
Message-ID: <01BD62C4.F53168D0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>,
        "[email-masked]'" <[email-masked]>

[email-masked] wrote:
> > In the Linux
> > 
> > [nagyl@piheno nagyl]$ echo  "aaa"|od -c
> > 0000000   a   a   a  \n
> > 0000004
> > 
> > In the windows NT bash
> > 
> > bash-2.01$ echo aaa|od -c
> > 0000000   a   a   a  \r  \n
> > 0000005
> > 
> > 
> > What the hell is the \r ????? 
> 
> In the DOS/Win32 world, text files have CR LF line endings, as opposed to
> Unix's LF only.  Since echo generates text, it is simply following the
> convention of the operating system and outputting a proper text file.
> 

You're wrong. B19 _bash_ forces pipes to be text mode. Try the same in ash and feel the difference.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia

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