On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 12:32:22, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > awk is used to manipulate text input in the first place so it treats all > input, files as well as stdin, as text. So, shall we drop this > behaviour for files only? Or for stdin as well? How many existing > setups are bound to fail after a change?
Perhaps I am missing something, but cant all that be said about Sed too? I just cant see a situation where we are justified changing one and not the other. They should either both strip carriage returns or neither. -- 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
