X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:13:02 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <1319883781.20120215011302@mtu-net.ru> To: Earnie Boyd , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: sed strips CRs In-Reply-To: References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F203F5655A@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <905541703.20120214045615@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Greetings, Earnie Boyd! >>> The standard response to issues dealing with CRLF files is to point the >>> user to dos2unix and text mode mounts. This should be adequate without >>> the hidden behavior of sed/grep/awk and probably others. >> >> While your reasoning is sound, I prefer them to behave the way they are for my >> own goals. >> I can't possible alter between text and binary mounts, or use d2u on and off >> in an attempt to produce consistent and predictable end results. > Consistent behavior is what I see as the issue. IMO, sed, grep and > awk should behave the same as on UNIX for consistent and predictable > behavior. Treating CR as white space not only helps the Windows user > it also helps the Unix user when Windows files are transferred to it. > I know that for sed at least treating CR as white space works very > well. Most apparent: it breaking EOL matches. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 15.02.2012, <01:12> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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