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Re: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?
- To: cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: Has CR/LF and cat problem with textutils-2.0 been solved?
- From: Chet Ramey <chet at nike dot ins dot cwru dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 12:03:09 -0400
- Cc: chet at po dot cwru dot edu
- Read-Receipt-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu
- Reply-To: chet at po dot CWRU dot Edu
> >However *all* shells (and not only bash) *must* read the standard
> >output of command expansion (backtick) in *text* mode, as it *does*
> >expect text and is *not* willing to handle binary data there.
>
> This was my point. We fixed ash to do the right thing and I've been waiting
> patiently for the bash maintainer to fix bash as well.
How about a bug report? Or maybe an email? I don't read this list
very often, so, unless I get mail about it, `waiting patiently' is
probably not going to get the job done.
Now, do you want all '\r's stripped, or \r\n translated to \n when
reading command substitution output?
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( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet)
Chet Ramey, CWRU chet@po.CWRU.Edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
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