Dear Cygwin Team, in the latest version of cygwin with sed-4.4-1.tar.bz2 the behavior of sed regarding handling CR-LF sequences changed. The last version I tried where this was still working is sed-4.2.2-3.tar.bz2.
I would say that the documented behavior in both versions is that they replace CR-LF with LF, because both version have a documented option -b to switch of this behavior. But in version 4.4-1 this doesn't work anymore. This breaks a lot of build scripts, because var=$( prog | sed .) now usually adds a carriage return to the variable in case the called prog is a MinGW program - a common scenario in MinGW cross development. Is this considered a bug in sed 4.4-1 or is the old behavior and the -b option considered deprecated and it was just forgotten to remove the documentation for the -b option? Best regards, Michael Old behavior (sed 4.2.2-3): $ echo -e "a\r\nb\r\nc\r" | sed 's/a//' | hexdump -C + echo -e 'a\r\nb\r\nc\r' + sed s/a// + hexdump -C 00000000 0a 62 0a 63 0a |.b.c.| 00000005 New behavior (sed 4.4-1): $ echo -e "a\r\nb\r\nc\r" | sed 's/a//' | hexdump -C + echo -e 'a\r\nb\r\nc\r' + sed s/a// + hexdump -C 00000000 0d 0a 62 0d 0a 63 0d 0a |..b..c..| 00000008 Intel Deutschland GmbH Registered Address: Am Campeon 10-12, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 8853-0, www.intel.de Managing Directors: Christin Eisenschmid, Christian Lamprechter Chairperson of the Supervisory Board: Nicole Lau Registered Office: Munich Commercial Register: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 186928 -- 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
