sed strips CRs

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 02/13/2012 04:43 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> >
>> > By the way, I'm still opening the script file with "rt".  I cannot think of
>> > any case when you would want to keep CRs there.
> The case of
>
> sed -e 's/something/nothing/g' myfile > myfile2
>
> as it works in Cygwin today would mean that in the case of the OP's
> drive settings myfile2 would not contain the CR.  Treating CR as white
> space is the more proper thing to do, IMO.

myfile is not the script file.  The script file is the one that you pass 
to -f.

Using "rt" was introduced in both cases for Cygwin, so regressions on 
other systems shouldn't be a problem.

Paolo

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