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Re: Cygwin 1.7 - backquoting, carriage returns and the removal of binmode
- From: Eric Blake <ebb9 at byu dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com, ryandort dot cygwin at gmail dot com
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:08:04 -0700
- Subject: Re: Cygwin 1.7 - backquoting, carriage returns and the removal of binmode
- References: <b4864b490912171545w6dd3fddaxacf1f0f0d0ecae56@mail.gmail.com>
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According to Ryan Dortmans on 12/17/2009 4:45 PM:
> This issue has been raised before in the mailing lists, with the
> solution being to set the CYGWIN environment variable to include
> "nobinmode".
That controlled whether pipes are in text or binary mode, stripping the \r
before bash ever had a chance to see anything. But there is another
approach - put bash into text mode to deal with the fact that cygwin no
longer strips \r from pipes. In particular, check out mention of 'igncr'
in: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2009-07/msg00002.html
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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