[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated [test]: sed-4.4-1

[Steven Penny]

On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 11:06:17, "Eric Blake (cygwin)" wrote:
> I made a tweak that no longer automatically strips carriage returns from
> input on binary mounts

This is great, but can we do it for Awk too?

    $ printf 'hello world\r\n' | awk 1 | od -tcx1
    0000000   h   e   l   l   o       w   o   r   l   d  \n
             68  65  6c  6c  6f  20  77  6f  72  6c  64  0a

Currently you have to make this awful incantation:

    $ unset POSIXLY_CORRECT
    $ printf 'hello world\r\n' | awk -vBINMODE=1 1 | od -tcx1
    0000000   h   e   l   l   o       w   o   r   l   d  \r  \n
             68  65  6c  6c  6f  20  77  6f  72  6c  64  0d  0a

BINMODE only gets parsed on the command line; it is not recognized even in the
BEGIN section. This makes it impossible to write portable Awk scripts with
respect to carriage returns.


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