> I am ysyncing text files between NT/95/XP machines and Solaris. I noted > that the text/ascii files created on the windows platforms contain ^M at > the end of each line when transfered to the Solaris system. This can be > explained by the binary transmission and can use FTP is ASCII mode to > prevent this from happening. It is crutial that we preserve the time > stamp, so running dos2unix isn't one of the top solutions (unless I write > something to touch the file back to the "original" time). Is there an > option to rsync files in ASCII mode? I would also appreciate and entertain > other solutions.
Could you not just use a shell script on the Solaris Side once you've rsynced the files across? This may be over simplified but it's the first thing that popped in my head): ---- Begin Psuedo-code ---- For textFile in listOfFiles originalTime=`ls -l $textFile | cut time/date field` sed $textFile replacing ^M with proper unix line endings touch -amt $originalTime $textFile Loop ---- End Psuedo-code ---- Hope this helps, Matt Burgess -----Original Message----- From: David Starks-Browning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 11:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cygwin rsync and ascii files On Thursday 27 Jun 02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I am ysyncing text files between NT/95/XP machines and Solaris. I noted > that the text/ascii files created on the windows platforms contain ^M at > the end of each line when transfered to the Solaris system. This can be > explained by the binary transmission and can use FTP is ASCII mode to > prevent this from happening. It is crutial that we preserve the time > stamp, so running dos2unix isn't one of the top solutions (unless I write > something to touch the file back to the "original" time). Is there an > option to rsync files in ASCII mode? I would also appreciate and entertain > other solutions. I can't think of any way to do this with rsync as shipped. If you need to *use* those text files on both Windows and UNIX, is there a way for you to create them with UNIX line endings in the first place? The only Windows application I know of that cannot handle UNIX line-endings is Notepad. You could try modifying rsync to open text files in text mode on Windows. I haven't tried it, but it might strip the ^M for you. Just be careful you don't open binary files this way, or they could get corrupted. (This approach is probably be too simplistic.) In any case, I think your only hope is to modify your copy of rsync to suit you, possibly in combination with a dos2unix filter on the Windows side. There are other techniques to force text v. binary file methods in Cygwin, using /usr/lib/textmode.o for example. Figure all that out using Cygwin docs and resources at <http://cygwin.com/>, not here. Good luck, I can imagine this feature would be useful to others, so please keep us informed. Thanks, David (Cygwin FAQ maintainer) -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
