Ok, have saved the file with Windows notepad as ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big endian, and UTF-8.
Both Unicode options give me the output with the extra spaces. ANSI and UTF-8 allow me to see the files as I would expect to see them. Does this mean it's necessary to change the encoding for any files I might need to cat, grep awk, etc.? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extra-spaces-in-text-files-in-cygwin-tp17764646p17767635.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/