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Re: CRLF question (yeah, again :-p)


Dan Haynes wrote:

> Running into a small issue with CR LF expansion again and I can't quite
> figure out if this is expected behaviour or not.
>
> We're using a clean install of Cygwin 1.7 on NT 4.0 SP6a, all mounts are
> text mode, all mounts on NTFS volumes.
>
> In a makefile I do
>
>         cmd /c "dir /ad /b" | sort >foo
>
> ...and the lines end up with extra CR characters appended (CR CR LF at the
> end of the lines)
>
> Changing the command line to:
>
>         cmd /c "dir /ad /b" >foo1
>         sort foo1 >foo
>
> ...works fine.
>
> I verified that sort.exe is the Cygwin version and not the NT one.
>
> Is it to be expected that piping the output of a Win32 app to a Cygwin app
> might/will result in end-of-line character confusion? Or should this work
> and I need to look at sort to find out what's happening?
>

The default mode for pipes in cmd.exe is now textmode.  Add the `binmode'
qualifier to your CYGWIN environment variable and restart all Cygwin
processes to change the processing mode to binary mode for pipes.

Cheers,
Earnie.


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