On Feb 11 12:19, Earnie Boyd wrote: > On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Feb 10 14:44, Earnie Boyd wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > On Feb 10 08:02, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > >> >> Cygwin 'sed' seems to be stripping CRs from its input. > >> >> Linux sed doesn't do this. Example: > >> > > >> > Try the -b option. > >> > >> By this I assume you to mean that the -b option opens the input file > >> in binary mode. But the mount table the OP showed was already in > >> binary mode. Does sed not take that into consideration, I.E. it > >> specifies the mode as a text file unless -b is specified, is this > >> correct? > > > > Yes. By default files are fopened using the "rt" mode on systems > > supporting this mode. This behaviour is hardcoded into upstream sed. > > But on Linux I would expect the "t" to be ignored and the file is open > in "binary" mode anyway.
That's why I wrote "on systems supporting this mode". Sed input is text input in the first place. Therefore it's using textmode in the first place. This is done so for a long time. If it's not what you need, there's a workaround, the -b option. 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
