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Subject: Re: Bash 3.1.17(8): Scripts on textmode mount get problems with CR  characters
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According to Bruun, Peter Michael (HP C&I CME OSS CoE) on 10/25/2006 1:18 AM:
> Hello Eric,
> 
> Thanks for the thorough explanation.
> 
> Yes, the missing handling of CRLF in `` and $() is the point of my
> message - these should understand the igncr setting.
> 
> Adding d2u is a cludge - I am working in a cross-platform environment
> and I do not have d2u on all platforms. I could define it as a dummy
> shell-function, but I don't want my Unix scripts to be unnecessarily
> polluted by such things. I believe it is an essential part of the
> purpose of Cygwin is to hide Windows specific detals, and so having to
> pollute my scripts in this way defies the purpose of Cygwin.
> 
> Adding --text to cat is similarly a cludge and would not be portable to
> native Unix platforms.
> 
> For now, setting IFS sounds like the best option, but as far as I can
> see, it does not affect command substitution either (at the moment of
> writing I only have access to bash-3.1-6).
> 
> In some contexts I already do white-space normalization using something
> like this:
> 
> F=`echo \`cat f.txt\``
> 
> With IFS set, this will work, but the method is only correct if f.txt
> does not contain significant white-space other than single blank
> characters.
> 
> So I am looking forward to bash-3.2-4 with igncr support in command
> substitution. When do you think, it will be around?

Yesterday evening.

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Peter Michael Bruun (HP C&I CME OSS CoE)
> 

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