when 'cat' is passed several text files as parameters, it will add the
invisible control character '^M' at the end of each lines of each file
except the first file.
e.g.:
$ cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt fileout.txt
in fileout.txt, all the lines from file2.txt and file3.txt now have a
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From: Tristan Savatier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: bug-textutils@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 3:39 PM
Subject: bug in cat 5.3.0 (cygwin) on XP SP2
when 'cat' is passed several text files as parameters, it will add the
invisible control character '^M' at the end of each lines of each
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:05:54PM -0700, Tristan Savatier wrote:
apparently this bug is triggered as soon as one of the text files contains
a spurious ^M character at its end, after the last \n. emacs does not show
the ^M in this case, but it seems to change the behavior of cat on windows.
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According to Tristan Savatier on 5/18/2005 4:39 PM:
when 'cat' is passed several text files as parameters, it will add the
invisible control character '^M' at the end of each lines of each file
except the first file.
Cygwin line-ending problems
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Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:33 AM
Subject: Re: bug in cat 5.3.0 (cygwin) on XP SP2
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According to Tristan Savatier on 5/18/2005 4:39 PM:
when 'cat' is passed several text files as parameters, it will add the
invisible control
