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Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 10:09:37 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Stripping ^M from llines?
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On Sun, Aug 31, 1997 at 08:21:48PM -0400, Charles Henrich wrote:
> In lists.freebsd.questions you write:
>
>
>> Well, I suppose it's a matter of opinion whether that's an easy way to
>> solve the problem.  It requires a lot of keyboard input.  Here's one
>> which I would use.  To compile, just:
>
>> $ cc stripcr.c -o stripcr
>
>> It's a filter: that is, you run it like this:
>
>> $ stripcr <infile >outfile
>
>> The reason for this isn't laziness: that way, you can pipe things into
>> it.
>
> Even easier:  sed 's/^M//' <file1 >file2

Touché.  For some reason that evaded my mind.  Must be too early in
the morning.

Greg