From: Erik Sobel <erik.sobel@alphatech.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Using cat, head, tail on binary files
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 07:16:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011127095652.00b92960@mail.alphatech.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011127071600.vFJaZ2tsOua8yrs8AEurIikQDMug2DKOwjTkR4Zwxck@z> (raw)
What is the trick to getting cat, head, and tail to work correctly with
binary files under WinNT? I tried setting the CYGWIN environment variable
to "binmode" as recommended by the documentation. This got things closer
to working but it's still not right.
Example: given a binary file named foo of size 10000 bytes
CYGWIN=tty
head -c50 foo > foo.part1 # got 23 bytes from foo
tail -c1000 foo > foo.part2 # got 648 bytes from foo
cat foo.part1 foo.part2 > new_foo # is not the sum of the two input file sizes
CYGWIN=binmode
head -c50 foo > foo.part1 # got 58 bytes from foo
tail -c1000 foo > foo.part2 # got 1046 bytes from foo
cat foo.part1 foo.part2 > new_foo # is not the sum of the two input file sizes
cat foo foo > foo2 # is not twice the size of foo
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Erik
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next reply other threads:[~2001-11-27 7:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-16 13:11 Erik Sobel [this message]
2001-11-16 15:29 ` Gerald Villemure
2001-11-27 7:33 ` Gerald Villemure
2001-11-27 7:16 ` Erik Sobel
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