Re: [Mingw-users] sed changes line terminators to unix-style?

[Earnie B. <ea...@us...>]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Eli Zaretskii <el...@gn...> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:54:13 -0400
>> From: Michael Shulman <shu...@gm...>
>> Cc: Mi...@fa..., gmu...@ya...
>>
>> Now I type this:
>> sed '/ANYPATTERN/d' dos_style.txt > unix_style.txt
>> I look at unix_style.txt in Windows Notepad and the terminators are
>> now unix-style, which is not at all what I wanted. All the output is
>> concatenated onto one very long line.
>
> Sounds like your port of Sed removes CR characters from the end of
> each line, and uses binary output mode when it writes to a file.
>
> Where did you get your port of Sed?  Is it per chance the MSYS build
> of Sed or a Cygwin build?

Use -b if you want to retain the CR.  At least that is what you need
for an MSYS provided sed.

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