bash CRLF problems (I have read the recent announcement)

[Kevin Layer]

Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:

>> > version=`cat foo1.out`
>> > ...
>> Time to adjust your expectations. ;-)  Text mounts write CRNL as EOLs
>> for all files that are not explicitly opened as binary (or text for
>> that matter).  Text mounts remove the CR from EOLs read from files that
>> are not explicitly opened as binary (or text).  'cat' explicitly opens
>> the file as binary.  

What is the portable way to get the contents of foo1.out into a
variable, getting proper translation of the end of lines?  (If the
answer is use `d2u' that is not portable.)  I thought I was safe by
using text mounts--I spent quite a while looking at the archives
before posting and thought I had covered all bases. 

Kevin

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