Greetings,
after some discussion the packages "awk", "grep", and "sed" were recent-
ly updated to open pipes in binary mode only. I do not want to revive
the discussion about pros and cons, I just want to make known how this
change broke one of my scripts. My script contains the line
cygcheck -cv | gawk '...'
which now produces utterly garbled output. The reason simply is that
"cygcheck" produces output lines with Windows style line ends. To test
just run the following:
$ cygcheck -cv | od -tcx1 | head -4
0000000 C y g w i n P a c k a g e I
43 79 67 77 69 6e 20 50 61 63 6b 61 67 65 20 49
0000020 n f o r m a t i o n \r \n L a s t
6e 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 69 6f 6e 0d 0a 4c 61 73 74
So there obviously is at least one Cygwin tool which uses Windows style
"\r\n" line ends in its output. I don't know whether or not there are
any others, but in my opinion this move to binary mode pipes should not
have been made as long as there are Cygwin tools producing Windows style
line ends.
Sincerely,
Rainer
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