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Re: Bash and CR/LF line-endings


Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
At the risk of being over-obvious, Linux users... use Linux. In such
an insular environment, perhaps they have the luxury of only using
the One True Text File Format (whatever that is).

We're you the one who brought up Unicode earlier? Besides, there are numerous situations where files get transferred with <CR><LF> without needing to involve Windows, so stray <CR> characters occasionally show up here and there. I'm sure many of us would like support for <CR><LF> endings on Linux as well.

...which is exactly why I kept pestering Eric to know if he planned on submitting upstream. :-)
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-10/msg00101.html (Eric's answer)


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