echo is wrong...

Sergey Okhapkin sos@buggy.prospect.com.ru
Tue Apr 7 21:25:00 GMT 1998


marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com wrote:
> > In the Linux
> > 
> > [nagyl@piheno nagyl]$ echo  "aaa"|od -c
> > 0000000   a   a   a  \n
> > 0000004
> > 
> > In the windows NT bash
> > 
> > bash-2.01$ echo aaa|od -c
> > 0000000   a   a   a  \r  \n
> > 0000005
> > 
> > 
> > What the hell is the \r ????? 
> 
> In the DOS/Win32 world, text files have CR LF line endings, as opposed to
> Unix's LF only.  Since echo generates text, it is simply following the
> convention of the operating system and outputting a proper text file.
> 

You're wrong. B19 _bash_ forces pipes to be text mode. Try the same in ash and feel the difference.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia


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