expand changing DOS line endings to Unix line endings
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Mon Jan 3 10:58:00 GMT 2005
David Christensen wrote:
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>I took the textfile from the attachment which has actually two \r\n
>>at the end which are 78 bytes at all:
> Thanks for your suggestion. I believe my copy of textfile.txt has one
> CRLF pair at the end, and the length is 76 bytes:
Maybe an issue with your or my mailer?
> I do not understand the subtleties of Cygwin textmode mounts and binmode
> mounts. I do not recall taking any actions to affect this parameter --
> my habit is to simply download Cygwin setup.exe, download packages to
> the local disk, and install packages from the local disk. When I
> suspect my Cygwin installation is corrupt, I rename C:\cygwin, do a
> fresh download/ download/ install cycle, and move over my data. (Maybe
> I need to do this again?)
Default setting is 'binmode' at the third setup.exe panel where you
define the 'Default Text File Type' -> 'Unix' *or* 'DOS'
>>... please install coreutils to replace all these three packages.
> Using ftp:://planetmirror.com, 5.2.1-4 appears to be the most recent
> version of coreutils and it looks like I already have it installed (also
> confirmed by the attached cygcheck.out). The three previous mirrors on
> the list also indicate 5.2.1-4 is current. Is there a newer release?
> Do I need to find a better mirror?
I don't saw it in your cygcheck?
From your first posting with this subject:
[...]
clear 1.0-1
cron 3.0.1-13
[...]
Latest posting includes now:
[...]
clear 1.0-1
coreutils 5.2.1-4
cron 3.0.1-15
[...]
> Reinstalling coreutils 5.2.1-4 anyway does not cure the problem:
Ok.
> dpchrist@p42800e:~$ grep dump .bashrc
> alias dump='od -Ad -tc'
> dpchrist@p42800e:~$ dump textfile.txt
> 0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f
> 0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h
> 0000032 N o t e p a d . \r \n I t h a
> 0000048 s D O S ( C R L F ) l i n
> 0000064 e e n d i n g s . \r \n
> 0000076
> dpchrist@p42800e:~$ expand textfile.txt > textfile.out
> dpchrist@p42800e:~$ dump textfile.out
> 0000000 T h i s i s a t e x t f
> 0000016 i l e c r e a t e d w i t h
> 0000032 N o t e p a d . \n I t h a s
> 0000048 D O S ( C R L F ) l i n e
> 0000064 e n d i n g s . \n
> 0000074
Confirmed. I see the same behaviour. So expand defaults to write
output in binmode. Is this the expected behaviour, Corinna?
Gerrit
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