At 07:02 PM 12/30/2004, you wrote: >Does a cygwin bash script (or awk) alter text files? I use a little script >someone gave me in cygwin to add a line to a number of Windows text files: > >for F in *.txt >do > awk '{if (NR==7) {print "Datei: " FILENAME}; > print}' "$F" > tmp.txt > mv tmp.txt "$F" >done > >It works, but it does *something* else to my text files. It seems to alter >all the linefeeds or all the blank lines. This causes problems when I want >to import those text files into Asksam later on. The files *look* the same, >however.
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