echo is wrong...

[Bob McGowan]

Sergey,

Having _bash_ force pipes to be text mode seems to me to be "incorrect".
I would think that the user would prefer a binary mode, so that it does
not matter what is input and the output matches.  Is there something
wrong with this idea?  Are there implementation issues, perhaps?

Thanks,

----
Bob McGowan
i'm bobmcgow at xstor dot com
Storage Dimensions, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: Sergey Okhapkin [ mailto:sos@buggy.prospect.com.ru ]
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 9:04 PM
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com; 'marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com'
Subject: RE: echo is wrong...


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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