Re: Additional carriage return added by cygwin commands to DOS text files

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Vincent RiviÃre <vincent.riviere <at> freesbee.fr> writes:

> 
> > I experienced the same issue with the "cat" command, and unfortunately I 
> > didn't find any transparent solution 
> 
> However a non-transparent hack is to use first a text filter then pipe 
> its output to the original command. The filter opens the file in 
> textmode so it gets rid of the CR. Then, as expected, no CR are present 
> in the pipe. Then normal CRs are added in the resulting file when it is 
> written on disk.
> 
> The "more" command is a good choice for such a filter, because its pager 
> functionality is disabled when it writes to a pipe, so it acts as a 
> simple repeater in textmode: exactly what we need.
> 
> $ more test1 |grep -U -E 'a|b' > test2
> $ xxd test2
> 0000000: 6161 610d 0a62 6262 0d0a                 aaa..bbb..
> 
> The result is correct.
> 


Thanks that could be a solution.

Note that I don't have the issue with cat.
bash-3.2$ cat test1 > test2
bash-3.2$ xxd test2
0000000: 6161 610d 0a62 6262 0d0a                 aaa..bbb..

I don't have it with sort used alone :
bash-3.2$ /usr/bin/sort test1 > test2
bash-3.2$ xxd test2
0000000: 6161 610d 0a62 6262 0d0a                 aaa..bbb..

But get it when using sort in a pipe with cat :
bash-3.2$ cat test1 | /usr/bin/sort > test2
bash-3.2$ xxd test2
0000000: 6161 610d 0d0a 6262 620d 0d0a            aaa...bbb...

But using more instead of cat solves the issue :
bash-3.2$ more test1 | /usr/bin/sort > test2
bash-3.2$ xxd test2
0000000: 6161 610d 0a62 6262 0d0a                 aaa..bbb..






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