Way back in 1998, Earnie Boyd asked about the binary option for
concatenating files in Cygwin.
Now, almost 16 years later, I find that I need the binary option for cat,
and I also find that cat.c still does NOT have the option! Here is a copy of
that long-ago request and the response from Don Baarda.
The work-around that Don suggested is not an option, since I need this in a
bash script. (Cygwin automatically runs Bash as it’s shell.)
When will the cat.c code be updated to function as it did in original Unix?
( cat [file1.. file2.. file n] >>output
At the very least, a binary option should be added to the
code.
Regards,
James A. Simmons, President & CEO
The Personal Computer User Group, International
Re: best way to append binary files
together?
- To: "BAARDA, Don" <dbaarda at
baea dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: best way to append
binary files together?
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at
yahoo dot com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:07:21 -0800
(PST)
- Cc: cygwin users <gnu-win32 at
cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot
com
---"BAARDA, Don" <dbaarda@baea.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> I know I can turn off text mode with either the CYGWIN environment
variable
> or by using mount options, but I'd be interested in what the best
way of
> doing this is.
>
IMHO fix the cat.c source. The workaround I would use would be to SET
CYGWIN=binmode before starting bash.
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