Quoth Bob Miller, on Thu, 5 May 2005 23:15:37 -0700: > Sed is a Unix command. Therefore it follows Unix line end > conventions. If it didn't, it would be broken, and many scripts that > rely on its correct behavior would also be broken. I don't see why
I understand the unix line convention. Yet some commands handle "carriage return" chars for convenience, and that can be a good thing. (I wonder if a command line switch for this in sed would be considered offensive.) Granted, if there's some utility in processing ^M characters specially, then precision is better. But then, I suppose the "$" syntax cannot be used with Mac files at all, since it's based strictly on the newline character, vrai? I also ack that M$ newlines are borked, but I find them inescapable. --Jason V. C. -- Stamp out intolerance! _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
