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Re: Coreutils for Windows

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On Sat, 6/13/2026 9:22 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:23:34 -0000 (UTC), Jason H wrote:
> 
>> I maintain a single Windows development system to keep sharp (and test
>> my
>>  Linux/Mac developed code) in case I get a job where a pure windows
>>  development environment is needed. This is a good start, but the lack
>>  of awk and sed is disappointing.
> 
> I think I last used sed and awk sometime back when Clinton was president. 
> I used Windows at work for some things and still have a Windows 11 laptop 
> but it's been gathering dust since I retired at the start of the year.
> 

I regularly use GAWK for sifting and sorting.

But generally speaking, the practice of using UTF-8 for things,
is now "leaking" into these sorts of tools, and they can't handle it.
It's best to save out your source material as ANSI, so the GAWKs
or PERLs of the world, can work on it. Like, using a "grep" one-liner
on something now, is bound to yield an unreadable mess.

So while you can have these utilities, be prepared for
surprises when UTF-8 save-outs makes a mess of the source materials.
Modern Notepad would save in UTF-8, if you did not override that.

It used to be, only line endings got in the way. And we made
a lot of use of "DOS2UNIX" and "UNIX2DOS" or the like. Now, the
situation is potentially much worse.

   Paul

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