Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 00:34:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On removing ^M Message-ID: <20050508213407.GA2150@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20050508192019.127ED1CE303@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> References: <20050508192019.127ED1CE303@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com>
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On 2005-05-08 14:20, Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg@london.com> wrote:
>
> Good day all!
>
> I am aware of the port unix2dos (dos2unix) as a tool to
> remove ^Ms from ASCII files.
>
> But if you execute dos2unix in a directory where some files
> contain ^M (CR/LF) and some files don't (CR), then dos2unix
> will make a mess of those files who don't.
>
> I am wondering what is needed (what tool or what code) to
> do a mass (recursive) removal of ^Ms?
No "tool" is needed, as long as you have FreebSD's shell, sed & grep:
$ find . | while read fname ;do
if grep '^M' "${fname}" >/dev/null 2>&1 ;then
sed -i '' -e 's/^M//g' "${fname}"
fi
done
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