cr, lf, and reading in terminals/vim

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 17:55:13 EDT 2019


On Oct 30, 2019, at 2:42 PM, Matthias mentioned

> I am not sure, if this will help with your task, but if i want to  avoid that the os replaces the line breaks with it´s default i am writing a binary file instead of a text file.  So in your case you would open the file for "binary write".


Bingo!   That did it.

klaus kicked

>I remember that a very, very long time ago I was advised to use numtochar(8)
>as a "line delimiter" for macOS shell scripts written to disk.

Isn’t that a backspace?


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