On Jun 17 10:57, James Calfee wrote: > "It seems like the issue is awk specific under Cygwin. I tried a few > different things and it seems that awk is silently treating replacing > \r\n with \n in the input data." > > See stack overflow ticket #24251296 > titled: does-awk-cr-lf-handling-break-on-cygwin > > Unfortunately the spam filter rejects links to stack overflow (already > a spam filtered site) > > On Linux (good, we have cr and nl) > $ echo $'line1\r\nline2'|awk 1|od -a > 0000000 l i n e 1 cr nl l i n e 2 nl > 0000015 > > On Cygwin or MSYS (bad, we have only a cr) > $ echo $'line1\r\nline2'|awk 1|od -a > 0000000 l i n e 1 nl l i n e 2 nl > 0000014
This is by design. The Cygwin version of gawk is by default always writing POSIX line endings to stdout. Try using the BINMODE option: echo $'line1\r\nline2'|awk -v BINMODE=1 1|od -a Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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