Date: Sat, 30 Aug 1997 16:15:24 +1000 From: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Stripping ^M from llines?[solved] Message-ID: <3407BA7B.3D5278DC@chalmers.com.au> References: <34076F58.B5DBAC3F@chalmers.com.au>
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Robert Chalmers wrote:
> Hi,
> Anyone got a handy program for stripping the ^M from text
> lines in fbsd?
> I currently use tr -d '\015', but this falls over text that
> has the : chararacter in it, complaining about it being a
> directory?
>
> cheers,
> Bob
Got sick of messing around and wrote a dos2unix thing in C.
Works fine for what I want.
Thanks for all the help folks.
========================== d2u.c
==============================
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAXCHAR 128
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int len;
int foo;
char string[128];
FILE *fileptr;
/* check arguements */
if (argc != 2)
error("Usage: d2u filename1 > filename2");
/* open file */
if ((fileptr = fopen(argv[1], "r")) == NULL)
error("Cannot open file");
/* read material and display */
for (;;) {
if (fgets(string, MAXCHAR, fileptr) != NULL) {
len = strlen(string);
for (foo = 0; foo <= len-1; foo++) {
if (string[foo] != '\015')
printf("%c", string[foo]);
}
}
else
exit(0);
}
}
/* Process errors */
error(message)
char *message;
{
printf("%s\n", message);
exit(1);
}
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