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>From: Eric Blake
>Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:05 AM
>To: Bruun, Peter Michael
>Subject: Re: Bash 3.1.17(8): Scripts on textmode mount get problems
with CR characters
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>According to Bruun, Peter Michael (HP C&I CME OSS CoE) on 10/25/2006
1:18 AM:
>> Hello Eric,
>>
>> Thanks for the thorough explanation.
>>
>> Yes, the missing handling of CRLF in `` and $() is the point of my
>> message - these should understand the igncr setting.
>>
>> Adding d2u is a cludge - I am working in a cross-platform environment
>> and I do not have d2u on all platforms. I could define it as a dummy
>> shell-function, but I don't want my Unix scripts to be unnecessarily
>> polluted by such things. I believe it is an essential part of the
>> purpose of Cygwin is to hide Windows specific detals, and so having
to
>> pollute my scripts in this way defies the purpose of Cygwin.
>>
>> Adding --text to cat is similarly a cludge and would not be portable
>> to native Unix platforms.
>>
>> For now, setting IFS sounds like the best option, but as far as I can
>> see, it does not affect command substitution either (at the moment of
>> writing I only have access to bash-3.1-6).
>>
>> In some contexts I already do white-space normalization using
>> something like this:
>>
>> F=`echo \`cat f.txt\``
>>
>> With IFS set, this will work, but the method is only correct if f.txt
>> does not contain significant white-space other than single blank
>> characters.
>>
>> So I am looking forward to bash-3.2-4 with igncr support in command
>> substitution. When do you think, it will be around?
>
>Yesterday evening.
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Peter Michael Bruun (HP C&I CME OSS CoE)
>>
U don't have d2u on all platforms, but U probably _do_ have awk or
gawk on every platform. I came up with a simple fix for the CRLF
problem when I encountered it, which is still klugy, but works on
every POSIX or Cygwin platform:
gawk '//' fileFromTextMount > fileWithLFOnlyOnBinMount
I used to use DJGPP in DOS boxes, but it's a DOS port without
awareness of Windows, so when my employer switched from W95/98 to
W2K, I switched to Cygwin, and of course ran in to the CRLF prob-
lem. I'm a big user of gawk and found that running this simple
script on each script fixed them all. I wasn't even aware of d2u
until much later. Of course, switching to all bin mounts makes
life a _lot_ easier, too.
There was one issue - which may have been fixed by my latest up-
grade (I still use my workaround, so I'm not sure) - in that run-
ning gawk on files containing binary information sometimes played
games with what gawk thought were line-endings within the binary
data, so I found that if use cat to pipe such files to gawk, the
latter works as expected:
cat fileFromTextMount | gawk '//' > fileWithLFOnlyOnBinMount
I prefer to change the scripts, because I try to write them to be
portable, but that's just me. Again, this is a kluge, but it's
portable.
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Thx, Phil Long
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