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Subject: Re: sed strips CRs
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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.


Corinna

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