> I don't see how this is whole situation is the problem of any Linux tooling Well, bash could also handle crlf nicely. There's no gain from interpreting cr as

> I don't see how this is whole situation is the problem of any Linux tooling Well, bash could also handle crlf nicely. There's no gain from interpreting cr as a non-space character. (The same is valid for every language out there and all the spacey things, like zero-width space, non-breaking space, and vertical tabs.)