From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-17T02:05:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Windows port; can I disable auto "\n" -> "\r\n" conversion?

Hi,

At Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:28:01 +0900,
Mike Williams wrote:
> I'm using with the Pragmatic port of ruby (1.7.2), which appears to be
> automatically converting my line-endings to CRLF.  For example:
> 
>   $ ruby -e 'print "abc\n"' | od -c
>   0000000   a   b   c  \r  \n
>   0000005
> 
> This is playing havoc with my source-code; running something like
> 
>   $ ruby -i~ -ple 'gsub(/XXXX/, "XXXX")' *.java
> 
> results in all my files being converted from Unix-text to Windoze-text
> format!!
> 
> Is there some way I can disable the magic conversion of CR to CRLF?

STDOUT.binmode.

For oneliners, you can put following code into binmode.rb in
your RUBYLIB or site_ruby directory, and use -rbinmode option.

  STDIN.binmode
  STDOUT.binmode
  STDERR.binmode

Once I'd suggested -b command line option and IO.binmode
accessor which control default open mode.

-- 
Nobu Nakada