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Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 20:58:33 +0300
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From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud AT unix DOT mvs DOT co DOT il>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Cc: Rolf DOT Guigas AT t-online DOT de
Subject: Re: echo and CYGWIN variable
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	(message from Igor Pechtchanski on Wed, 21 May 2003 10:39:43 -0400
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On Wed, 21 May 2003 10:39:43 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> 
> Whenever you redirect to a file, the mount table is consulted, and the
> appropriate mode is selected (i.e., CYGWIN has no effect).  If you use
> Win32 paths, there are no entries in the mount table, so I'm not quite
> sure what's going on.  You could try using backslashes instead of forward
> slashes (I think those force textmode), i.e., use ">> 'd:\tmp\file.log'"
> instead of ">> 'd:/tmp/file.log'".  Other things to try would be /bin/echo
> or "echo something | cat >> 'd:/tmp/file.log'" and see if that works.  If
> all else fails, try running "strace" on the echo command (you'll need to
> trace the redirection as well, so you might be better off using "strace
> bash -c 'echo something >> d:/tmp/file.log'"), and see if it provides any
> clues.

Another option is to write a "filter" that has 2 args: the 1st is the
mode (-b/-t) and the second is the file name to write to. This will
bypass the automatic mode setting (I have such a program for code
conversion, e.g. ASCII <---> EBCDIC, and it also does End of Line
conversion, so I can convert from/to CR-LF files on UNIX).

Ehud.


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