Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:35:31 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows ASCII files -> Unix ASCII Files Message-ID: <20162945762.20000808163531@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20000808222146.A3443@student.uu.se> References: <399069B1.1AB04AFF@wmptl.com> <20000808222146.A3443@student.uu.se>
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Tuesday, August 08, 2000, 4:21:46 PM, you wrote: ET> On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 04:12:33PM -0400, Nathan Vidican wrote: >> Is there any sort of utility to rip the ^M characters from the end of >> each line in an ASCII text file as produced by Windows? I've tried using >> a simple regexp with perl, as well as using chop/chomp, but niether seem >> to work, any ideas? >> >> >> I figure there has got to be some easy way of doing this? Right now >> we're FTP get/binary, then FTP put/ASCII 'ing in order to convert; which >> needless to say is a pain in the neck. >> Any ideas or suggestions would be helpful. >> ET> Why not use tr(1)? ET> Example: ET> tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile ET> That is probably the simplest soulution. (These are all quoted from a discussion on Aug 1st on -questions) Or: flip -u Or: you can do this within vi :g/(Ctrl-V)(Ctrl-M)/s/// Or: perl -pi -e "s:^V^M::g" <filenames> where ^V and ^M are actually the control chars, not the meta-chars! or, you can do any of these (non-meta char rule still applies); cat <filename1> | tr -d "^V^M" > <newfile> sed -e "s/^V^M//" <filename> > <output filename> -- and in vi you can: 1) hit the ESC key 2) :%s/^V^M// Or: in vi :%s/^M//g Or: open it up in pico and save it -- Best regards, Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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