Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <41D8A465.9B66ECC@dessent.net> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:48:21 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: "od" wrong line endings and byte count References: <41D897B8.E802CA0B@dessent.net> <20050103012057.GB444@efn.org> <41D89FC3.C4EEF420@dessent.net> <20050103012920.GA1844@efn.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > > I thought we were talking about 'od' here where presumably you always > > want to open files for reading in binary mode? (And as far as I know od > > doesn't write anything, redirection aside...) > > 'twas redirection I was thinking of: > > $ od /dev/null>od.out > $ od /dev/null>textmount/od.out > $ ls -l od.out textmount/od.out > -rw-r--r-- 1 sthoenna None 8 Jan 2 17:28 od.out > -rw-r--r-- 1 sthoenna None 9 Jan 2 17:28 textmount/od.out Redirection is setup by the shell, so the program whose output is redirected has no say on how the file is opened. Brian -- 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/