X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:56:40 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sed strips CRs Message-ID: <20120211175640.GI9823@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F203F560E4@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <20120210150708.GA22832@calimero.vinschen.de> <20120211100600.GA9823@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Feb 11 12:19, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 10 14:44, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > On Feb 10 08:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > >> >> Cygwin 'sed' seems to be stripping CRs from its input. > >> >> Linux sed doesn't do this. Example: > >> > > >> > Try the -b option. > >> > >> By this I assume you to mean that the -b option opens the input file > >> in binary mode.  But the mount table the OP showed was already in > >> binary mode.  Does sed not take that into consideration, I.E. it > >> specifies the mode as a text file unless -b is specified, is this > >> correct? > > > > Yes.  By default files are fopened using the "rt" mode on systems > > supporting this mode.  This behaviour is hardcoded into upstream sed. > > But on Linux I would expect the "t" to be ignored and the file is open > in "binary" mode anyway. That's why I wrote "on systems supporting this mode". Sed input is text input in the first place. Therefore it's using textmode in the first place. This is done so for a long time. If it's not what you need, there's a workaround, the -b option. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple