| gabriel rosenkoetter on Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:52:06 -0500 |
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 09:18:35PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > Why do you think DOS's copy command cares about end of line > characters? I don't think it does. But I think split(1) may or may not insert EOLs if you tell it to split the file along byte boundaries. Which means that, if your binary file *had* ^Js or ^Ms in it, you may mysteriously end up with too many when copy rejoins the files. It'd sort of be split(1)'s fault, but not really, since it *told* you it wanted to deal with "lines", not with bytes. The point is, btw, less what GNU split(1) (or anyone else's) does or doesn't do, and more that the behavior is NOT specified by a standard, whereas dd(1)'s is. The latter is specifically made to do byte- and block-boundary divisions of files. (It's also made to reblock data for different media, but it doesn't have to do that here.) -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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