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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:42:42 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: gawk not taking redirected input under command.com
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 07:14:26AM -0700, Barry Buchbinder wrote:
>  C:\> gawk '{print "x" $0 "y"}' < autoexec.bat
>gave no "x" but "y" was at the *beginning* of the line!

Calm down.

>C:\> gawk '{print $0 "yz" }' < autoexec.bat
>showed that what was happening was that the "yz" was *overwriting* the
>beginning of the line.

So, to summarize, this is a standard CRLF problem.  If you look at the
output in od or less you can see what is going on.

I don't know why this version of gawk is having CRLF problems.  I'll
check to see if this is a cygwin problem or a gawk problem but I suspect
it is a gawk problem.

cgf

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