R: How to make cygwin redirect in UNIX mode?

[Marco Atzeri]

--- Lun 8/6/09, Pan ruochen  ha scritto:

> Da: Pan ruochen 
> Oggetto: How to make cygwin redirect in UNIX mode?
> A: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Data: Lunedì 8 giugno 2009, 11:40
> Hi All,
> 
> I do as the manual (http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-textbinary.html)
> says:
> When redirecting, the Cygwin shells uses rules (a-e). For
> these shells
> the relevant value of CYGWIN is that at the time the shell
> was
> launched and not that at the time the program is executed.
> Non-Cygwin
> shells always pipe and redirect with binary mode. With
> non-Cygwin
> shells the commands  cat filename | program and 
> program < filename
> are not equivalent when filename is on a text-mounted
> partition.
> 
> I have edited c:\cygwin\cygwin.bat as:
> @echo off
> set CYGWIN=binmode
> C:
> chdir C:\cygwin\bin
> bash --login -i
> 
> After I relaunch cygwin and run:
> echo abc > a.txt
> 
> The file a.txt is in DOS format, not in UNIX.
> What's wrong then?
> 

1) 
To help on trouble shooting, please 

cygcheck -s -v -r -h > cygcheck_output.txt
and send us the result. 

See
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#cygcheck

2) 
I guess that you installed cygwin in text mode

what does "mount" report ? 

Regards
Marco



     

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