H Brian , Marco - Output from type and which and cygcheck.out attached chrisd@edmund:chrisd > type -a echo /usr/bin/ksh: whence: -a: unknown option chrisd@edmund:chrisd > which -a echo /usr/bin/echo /usr/bin/echo This behaviour of the redirection can also be replicated using sed, etc. chrisd@edmund:chrisd > od -c foo.txt 0000000 H e l l o \n 0000006 chrisd@edmund:chrisd > sed 's/Hello/Goodbye/' foo.txt | od -c 0000000 G o o d b y e \n 0000010 chrisd@edmund:chrisd > sed 's/Hello/Goodbye/' foo.txt > boo.txt chrisd@edmund:chrisd > od -c boo.txt 0000000 G o o d b y e \r \n 0000011 Curious case of pipe to cat then redirect chrisd@edmund:chrisd > sed 's/Hello/Goodbye/' foo.txt | cat > boo.txt chrisd@edmund:chrisd > od -c boo.txt 0000000 G o o d b y e \n 0000010 chrisd@edmund:chrisd > echo $CYGWIN nodosfilewarning codepage:utf-8 binmode Cheers Chris Day c: +44 7930 909 297 p: +44 115 714 0869 s: bigchrisday https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdayabinitio/ -----Original Message----- From: chris.day@pinky.co.uk Sent: 15 April 2019 12:57 To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' Subject: carriage return newline being appended when using redirection in binary mode Hi - I'm having problems with carriage return newline being appended when using redirection in binary mode. If I pipe to cat and redirect the newline is preserved, which is odd. CYGWIN_NT-10.0 edmund 3.0.6(0.338/5/3) 2019-04-06 16:18 x86_64 Cygwin chrisd@edmund:chrisd > mount E:/abinitio/cygwin/bin on /usr/bin type ntfs (binary,auto) E:/abinitio/cygwin/lib on /usr/lib type ntfs (binary,auto) E:/abinitio/cygwin on / type ntfs (binary,auto) C: on /cygdrive/c type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) D: on /cygdrive/d type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) E: on /cygdrive/e type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) F: on /cygdrive/f type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) G: on /cygdrive/g type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) H: on /cygdrive/h type vfat (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) Q: on /cygdrive/q type ntfs (binary,posix=0,user,noumount,auto) chrisd@edmund:chrisd > echo "Hello" Hello chrisd@edmund:chrisd > echo "Hello" | od -c 0000000 H e l l o \n 0000006 chrisd@edmund:chrisd > echo "Hello" > foo.txt chrisd@edmund:chrisd > od -c foo.txt 0000000 H e l l o \r \n 0000007 chrisd@edmund:chrisd > echo "Hello" | cat > foo.txt chrisd@edmund:chrisd > od -c foo.txt 0000000 H e l l o \n 0000006 This does seem contrary to the following posts https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-02/msg00152.html https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-02/msg00188.html https://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2017-02/msg00189.html Cheers Chris Day c: +44 7930 909 297 p: +44 115 714 0869 s: bigchrisday https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisdayabinitio/