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Re: Erroneous line endings (cat,gawk,text mount)
On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:54:41PM +0100, Peter S Tillier wrote:
> Replying to Igor Pechtchanski who wrote:
>
> > Also, "cat" will not translate line endings or anything at all --
> > it's just a character-by-character copy of stdin to stdout.
>
> Fair enough (and what I expect it to be) thanks for the clarification.
Igor, how do you explain the following behavior?
~: od -c
abc
0000000 a b c \n
0000004
~: cat | od -c
abc
0000000 a b c \r \n
0000005
This is with CYGWIN undefined and stty -igncr icrnl
I get the \r no matter what I try for CYGWIN and stty.
Pierre
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