^M diff related problem
Mumit Khan
khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU
Fri Jan 19 15:49:00 GMT 2001
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 Chuck.Irvine@mail.sprint.com wrote:
> Just curious - why might the setting of TEMP make a difference? Thanks,
> anyway, though.
It makes a difference for some tools such as patch which creates a
temporary file. The default TEMP points to /cygdrive/c/WINNT/Temp on
say a NT or Win2k box which is by default textmode, and patch output
then adds unexpected ^Ms. I personally set TMPDIR and TEMP to /tmp
in .bashrc to avoid these little issues.
Doesn't make a difference for diff, which doesn't use temporary files.
Regards,
Mumit
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