Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 16:50:33 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: joki@shire.domestic (Joachim Kuebart) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing DOS's ^M Message-ID: <199704041450.QAA11267@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <199704041308.PAA00627@shire.domestic> from Joachim Kuebart at "4. Apr. 97 15:07:45"
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> There used to be a utility to do that, something like a filter called crlf or so, but I can't find that.
>
> For now, to convert Text files (that do NOT contain any other control characters apart from ^M and newline), you can use
>
> cat -v filename | sed 's/^M//' > outfilename
>
> alternatively to EMACS, which is Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping.
> Maybe even sed offers a better way, but this is what comes to my mind :-)
Try
tr -d '\r' <filename >outfilename
~~ = <Ctrl-V><Ctrl-Z>
This will work also for files which contain other control chars.
Robert
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