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. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 15.02.2012, <01:12> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
