X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:16:01 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: bug-sed@gnu.org Subject: Re: sed strips CRs Message-ID: <20120215091601.GL25918@calimero.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, bug-sed@gnu.org References: <2BF01EB27B56CC478AD6E5A0A28931F203F5655A@A1DAL1SWPES19MB.ams.acs-inc.net> <905541703.20120214045615@mtu-net.ru> <1319883781.20120215011302@mtu-net.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1319883781.20120215011302@mtu-net.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 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