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On Feb 15 01:13, Andrey Repin wrote:
> 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.

This is about the script, not the input file.  From my POV both works
fine here, either just ignoring the CR, or using "rt" mode.


Corinna

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