Preserve line endings

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You can use the -b option for sed to have it treat the file as binary. This will fix the problem with cygwin’s sed on Windows.

Example: sed -b 's/foo/bar/'

If you wish to match the end of the line, remember to match, capture and copy the optional carriage return.

Example: sed -b 's/foo\(\r\?\)$/bar\1/'

From the sed man page:

-b      –binary

This option is available on every platform, but is only effective where the operating system makes a distinction between text files and binary files. When such a distinction is made—as is the case for MS-DOS, Windows, Cygwin—text files are composed of lines separated by a carriage return and a line feed character, and sed does not see the ending CR. When this option is specified, sed will open input files in binary mode, thus not requesting this special processing and considering lines to end at a line feed.`

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