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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 16:35:31 -0400
From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com>
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To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
Cc: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Windows ASCII files -> Unix ASCII Files
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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




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