Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20041230195707.04c74a50@pop.prospeed.net> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:58:56 -0500 To: , From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: What does a Script do to Windows text files? In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 07:02 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote: >Does a cygwin bash script (or awk) alter text files? I use a little script >someone gave me in cygwin to add a line to a number of Windows text files: > >for F in *.txt >do > awk '{if (NR==7) {print "Datei: " FILENAME}; > print}' "$F" > tmp.txt > mv tmp.txt "$F" >done > >It works, but it does *something* else to my text files. It seems to alter >all the linefeeds or all the blank lines. This causes problems when I want >to import those text files into Asksam later on. The files *look* the same, >however. If you need files as Windows "text" files, pipe the result through 'u2d'. If that doesn't work, read and follow . -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/