Re: sed question about newline -> cr/lf conversion

[Albert Chin]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:12:06PM -0600, Lynn Wilson wrote:
> If I run sed on a binary executable file that perchance has \n (0xa)
> characters in it, the resulting output (without substitution) has
> those changed to CR-LF.
> 
> Is there a way to disable this conversion?
> 
> I'm running cygwin on a MS-Win2K system.
> 
> I really don't want to modify the application to test for file type prior to
> running sed on it.

Then run sed twice. Run it the first time without substitution. If the
file size increases (just cmp the source and destination), then assume
it's a binary file. Else, run sed again with the substitution you
want.

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albert chin (address@hidden)