From: Earnie Boyd >On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:> >> That's why I wrote "on systems supporting this mode". Sed input is >> text input in the first place. Therefore it's using textmode in the >> first place. This is done so for a long time. If it's not what you >> need, there's a workaround, the -b option. > > I was stressing the issue of the confusion. That being, Cygwin is > different than Linux as well as it is similar. Many expect it to be > exactly matching.
I agree that it's confusing. More confusion: sed's man page does not mention the -b option, although sed --help does. grep also strips CRs, but has option -U to suppress this behavior. awk also strips CRs. I could not find an awk option to suppress this. IMHO it would be preferable to replace this confusing state and align these tools with Cygwin's philosophy to work like GNU/Linux. 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. Respectfully submitted, Ken Nellis
