On 5/5/05, Jason Van Cleve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.) Probably but you could ask the gnu folks.
> Granted, if there's some utility in processing ^M > characters specially, then precision is better. But then, I suppose the > "$" syntax cannot be used with Mac files at all, since it's based > strictly on the newline character, vrai? actually it's worse than that with OSX files produced on a Mac may or may not have unix or (oldschool)Mac line endings... depending on the program that produced them... > I also ack that M$ newlines are borked, but I find them inescapable. really, I find them quite easy to escape, vide. """foo bar baz """ 'foo%0Abar%0Abaz%0A' or dos style 'foo%0D%0Abar%0D%0Abaz%0D%0A' > --Jason V. C. > > -- > Stamp out intolerance! > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does? _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
