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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple