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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 17:22:25 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@miami.edu>, George Vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>, FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ^M remove
Message-ID:  <19980412172225.A7661@emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980412180721.23530D-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>; from "Joe Marcus Clarke" on Sun Apr 12 18:07:42 GMT 1998
References:  <Pine.OSF.3.96.980412180721.23530D-100000@jaguar.ir.miami.edu>

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In the last episode (Apr 12), Joe Marcus Clarke said:
> I came across two perl scripts a while back to this (one to remove them
> and one to add them).  I didn't write them, I just modified them.
> They're included.  You need perl to use them.

Joe, you seem to have forgotten something in that last email :)

> On Sun, 12 Apr 1998, George Vagner wrote:
> > someone posted a way to remove those pesky
> > ^M  characters from dos files.
> > 
> > can someone tell me how again please?

I remove ^Ms with

tr -d "\r" < file1 > file2

A neat way to convert a whole directory tree of files is to zip them
up, then unzip them with the -a flag, which does the ASCII conversion.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com

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