RE: sed and dos format

Brian wrote: > Regarding efficiency, I am strictly talking about the code path. > Having Cygwin add a \r when the file is written the first time should > be more efficient than reprocessing the whole thing after it's been > processed the first time, or at the least reparsing the lines in an > outpu

Re: sed and dos format

Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > james pentland also wrote: > > this makes sed unusable or undesirable for a large > > number of files i might want to edit. > > I don't take this as an implication of 'bulk' edits. So your "many files" > falls on this. Also; using sed implies automatic changes. My r

RE: sed and dos format

Brian Dessent wrote: > Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > >> You wrote: >>> james pentland wrote: >>> sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos format line endings to unix format line endings. >>> >>> Use a text mode mount. >> >> Using a sledgahammer for a nail? >> Better to use un

Re: sed and dos format

Hannu E K Nevalainen wrote: > You wrote: > > james pentland wrote: > > > >> sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos > >> format line endings to unix format line endings. > > > > Use a text mode mount. > > Using a sledgahammer for a nail? > Better to use unix2dos A.K.A. u2d. I disag

RE: sed and dos format

You wrote: > james pentland wrote: > >> sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos >> format line endings to unix format line endings. > > Use a text mode mount. > > Brian Using a sledgahammer for a nail? Better to use unix2dos A.K.A. u2d. /Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE Microcomput

Re: sed and dos format

james pentland wrote: > sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos > format line endings to unix format line endings. Use a text mode mount. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation:

sed and dos format

James remarks that "sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos format line endings to unix format line endings" under cygwin and that this "makes sed unusable or undesirable for a large number of files i might want to edit" Cygwin-apps may be a more appropriate place for this question.

sed and dos format

sed has the unfortunate property that it reduces dos format line endings to unix format line endings. thus, sed will change every line in a dos format file even if it had made no changes to the text. this makes sed unusable or undesirable for a large number of files i might want to edit. is this