OK - I read Corinna's ANNOUNCEMENT on gawk-3.1.5-4. I'll try the BINMODE
variable.
Still not sure about sed, I'll look for a similar variable..
On Wed 4/5/06 13:24 CDT cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:
> The latest versions of gawk and sed appear to have changed how they
> process DOS text STDIN. This change in behavior has broken some of
> our scripts. Is this change in behavior by design? Can we revert back
> to the old design?
>
> Pls see test cases below.
>
> --
> thanks,
> Tom Rodman
>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Normal behavior for many past revs of cywgin's gawk and sed:
> # o sed is *not* binary in pipes (it converts DOS text to UNIX)
> # o awk is binary in pipes (it leaves line terminators alone)
> #
> # NOTE that "printf" test below sends 1 DOS line of text (\r\n), and 1 UNIX
> line
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> ~ $ date;uname -a
> Wed Apr 5 12:43:46 CDT 2006
> CYGWIN_NT-5.2 OurSrvr063 1.5.19(0.150/4/2) 2006-01-20 13:28 i686 Cygwin
> ~ $ cygcheck -c|egrep 'gawk|sed'
> gawk 3.1.5-2 OK
> sed 4.1.4-1 OK
> ~ $ printf "hi\r\nho\n"|eval sed '/foo/d'|od -c
> 0000000 h i \n h o \n
> h i \n h o \n
> 0000006
> ~ $ printf "hi\r\nho\n"|eval awk '{print}'|od -c
> 0000000 h i \r \n h o \n
> h i \r \n h o \n
> 0000007
>
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> # Problem behavior for new gawk and sed
> # o sed is now binary in pipes (it leaves line terminators alone)
> # o awk is *not* binary in pipes (it converts DOS text to UNIX)
> # --------------------------------------------------------------------
> ~ $ date;uname -a
> Wed Apr 5 12:53:56 CDT 2006
> CYGWIN_NT-5.0 OurServer108 1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060329 23:02:10 i686 Cygwin
> ~ $ cygcheck -c|egrep 'gawk|sed'
> gawk 3.1.5-4 OK
> sed 4.1.5-1 OK
> ~ $ printf "hi\r\nho\n"|eval sed '/foo/d'|od -c
> 0000000 h i \r \n h o \n
> 0000007
> ~ $ printf "hi\r\nho\n"|eval awk '{print}'|od -c
> 0000000 h i \n h o \n
> 0000006
>
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