Making Cygwin write DOS style text files
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Thu Sep 30 23:42:00 GMT 1999
--- Rabbe Fogelholm <Rabbe.Fogelholm@ellemtel.se> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to the list; hope this is not a FAQ ( I have read the "How is
> the DOS/Unix CR/LF thing handled?" FAQ entry).
>
> My problem: I want to manipulate a text file under Win32, using Cygwin
> Tools (grep, sed etc). The resulting file has Unix-style line ends
> (single LF) and looks unreadable when opened with Notepad.
>
> My best solution thus far: Filter the text through gawk
> '{printf("%s\015\n",$0);}' .
>
> This works, but is there a neater solution?
Don't use Notepad use Wordpad or Write. It handles the UNIX style line endings.
=====
Earnie Boyd < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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