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RE: echo is wrong...
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'marcus at bighorn dot dr dot lucent dot com'" <marcus at bighorn dot dr dot lucent dot com>
- Subject: RE: echo is wrong...
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at buggy dot prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 08:04:29 +0400
marcus@bighorn.dr.lucent.com wrote:
> > In the Linux
> >
> > [nagyl@piheno nagyl]$ echo "aaa"|od -c
> > 0000000 a a a \n
> > 0000004
> >
> > In the windows NT bash
> >
> > bash-2.01$ echo aaa|od -c
> > 0000000 a a a \r \n
> > 0000005
> >
> >
> > What the hell is the \r ?????
>
> In the DOS/Win32 world, text files have CR LF line endings, as opposed to
> Unix's LF only. Since echo generates text, it is simply following the
> convention of the operating system and outputting a proper text file.
>
You're wrong. B19 _bash_ forces pipes to be text mode. Try the same in ash and feel the difference.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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